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...

This study tested a theoretical model of alcohol use, markers of extreme intoxication, and risk behavior as a function of trait affect, distress tolerance, and affect-based behavior dysregulation. Positive affective pathways to risk behavior were primarily expected to be indirect via high levels of alcohol use, while negative affect paths were expected to be more directly associated with engage...

This study seeks to extend the literature by examining distress tolerance (DT) levels for a substance dependent group of individuals. Next, it considers the potential relationship of DT levels with substance dependence features and finally, it compares those factors with a healthy control group. This study included 93 individuals (49 substance dependent and 44 healthy controls). Participants we...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physical pain can reduce emotional distress, perhaps especially the psychic pain of guilt. This implies that people who continually experience guilt may exhibit greater tolerance for pain relative to people who do not. METHODS To test this hypothesis, we administered a pressure algometer procedure to assess pain tolerance in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorde...

We examined the association between regular teachers' distress tolerance (tolerance of frustration, ambiguity and discomfort) their willingness to include children with special educational needs (SENs) in classes, as well mediating function teacher job satisfaction. sampled 502 teachers Anambra State, Nigeria. Our findings revealed that while frustration had significant positive effects on sati...

Objective Given the relevance of problematic Internet use (PIU) to everyday life, its relationship to emotional dysregulation and the importance of metacognitions and distress intolerance in process and intermediaries research, this study examined which of metacognitions and distress intolerance acts as an intermediary between emotional dysregulation and PIU. Methods In the current study, 413...