Maternal and paternal emotional contributions to children's distress tolerance: Relations to child depressive symptoms

In trying to understand the effects of negative emotions and stressful experiences on both psychological and physical health outcomes, individual characteristics have long been of great interest. In other words, researchers have argued that how a stressful event is experienced is just as important as whether the stressor occurred. This approach has extended to focus on the extent to which an individual is able to tolerate distress. An increasingly large body of work has identified distress tolerance (DT) – defined as the ability to persist in goal-directed activity while experiencing psychological distress (Brown et al., 2002; Lejeuz et al., 2003; Simons and Gaher, 2005), as an important individual difference variable.
Source: Psychiatry Research - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research