A new symptom criterion of reckless and self-destructive behaviors (E2) was recently added to posttraumatic stress disorder's (PTSD) diagnostic criteria in DSM-5, which is unsurprising given the well-established relation between PTSD and risky behaviors. Researchers have questioned the significance and incremental validity of this symptom criterion within PTSD's symptomatology. Unprecedented to...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether an exaggerated response to a mildly painful stimulus would reflect abnormal levels of psychological distress in patients and, conversely, whether patients who show abnormal levels of psychological distress would have a low tolerance for a mildly painful stimulus. A total of 101 patients were given a mildly painful stimulus (30-gauge needle stic...

Emotion regulation difficulties have been implicated in the maintenance of many anxiety disorders. However, existing research has relied mostly on self-report measures of emotion regulation or one type of mood induction. The present study examined the relationships between anxiety symptoms and emotional reactivity and tolerance using multiple assessment methodologies. Participants (N=122) compl...

Recent research considers distress (in)tolerance as an essential component in the development of various forms of psychopathology. A behavioral task frequently used to assess distress tolerance is the breath holding task. Although breath holding time (BHT) has been associated with behavioral outcomes related to inhibitory control (e.g., smoking cessation), the relationship among breath holding ...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression co-occur frequently following the experience of potentially traumatizing events (PTE; Morina et al., 2013). A person-centered approach to discern heterogeneous patterns of such co-occurring symptoms is recommended (Galatzer-Levy and Bryant, 2013). We assessed heterogeneity in PTSD and depression symptomatology; and subsequently asse...

conclusions metacognitive regulation strategies are more considerable prediction than emotional regulation strategies in sd group than in ad group. individuals with ad use alcohol as a means of both cognitive and emotional regulation strategy. patients and methods according to dsm-iv tr criteria, 45 patients with alcohol dependence (ad), 44 patients with substance dependence (sd), and 43 volunt...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine whether the clinical pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia would increase during standard laboratory tasks and, if so, whether these increases were linked with individual differences in psychological distress. METHODS Twenty-three patients with fibromyalgia and 16 patients with rheumatoid arthritis rated changes in clinical ...

Background: Distress tolerance has increasingly been used as an important construct to develop a novel insight into the onset and persistence of psychological traumas well prevention treatment. Objectives: The present study investigated relationship between social support distress with death anxiety using artificial neural networks (ANN) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive cases. Met...

Chronic bronchial disease constitutes a significant, yet underdiagnosed, cause of both chronic cough, episodic as well as, acute-onset respiratory distress in the adult dog. Untreated, chronic bronchial disease is a debilitating, progressive respiratory syndrome that characteristically results in decreased exercise tolerance, inactivity, paroxysmal respiratory distress, airway collapse, and eve...