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Contextual Influences on Distress Intolerance: Priming Effects on Behavioral Persistence

verfasst von: Kristin L. Szuhany, Michael W. Otto

Erschienen in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Ausgabe 4/2015

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Abstract

Distress intolerance (DI), the inability to tolerate stressful experiences, has been linked to multiple psychiatric conditions and maladaptive coping patterns. Although DI is often considered a trait-like variable, evidence indicates that self-report and behavioral indices of DI can be manipulated by contextual factors. Understanding such contextual influences is important given evidence of unexpected variability in these presumed trait-like measures over brief intervals. The current study examined the influence of context (manipulated by priming concepts of “Interminability” and “Brevity”) in predicting behavioral persistence, in relation to self-reported DI. Results indicated that priming Brevity was associated with terminating a cold-pressor task more quickly. Self-reported DI was linked to earlier termination, but there was no interaction between self-reported DI and priming condition. Results indicate that contextual cues modulate performance on behavioral measures of DI. Hence, models of DI should consider both trait-like and contextual factors in understanding variability in DI measures.

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Titel: Contextual Influences on Distress Intolerance: Priming Effects on Behavioral Persistence
verfasst von: Kristin L. Szuhany
Michael W. Otto
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2015
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Ausgabe 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-015-9672-x

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