Both theory and empirical evidence support possible associations between two candidate genetic polymorphisms (SLC6A4 5-HTTLPR l/s and COMT Val(158)Met--rs4680 variants) and emotion-regulation difficulties. One particular form of emotion-regulation difficulty, distress intolerance, has been measured using a behavioral assessment in youth; data indicate a relationship with poor psychological func...

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/05.ONF.E42-E47 Symptom distress often is used to describe the subjective experience of people in various states of health and illness. Multiple studies have shown that symptom distress is related to quality of life, treatment tolerance, and even survival in patients with cancer and other illnesses. The importance of symptom distress as a multidimensional conce...

I this paper we roughly quantify the degree of risk aversion induced by three rationales for corporate risk management: the cost of financial distress, costly external finance, and the principal-agent relationship between shareholders and management. In so doing, we provide a foundation for the use of corporate utility functions. However, we are unable to fully support the degree of risk aversi...

It has been suggested that people engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) because they (a) experience heightened physiological arousal following stressful events and use NSSI to regulate experienced distress and (b) have deficits in their social problem-solving skills that interfere with the performance of more adaptive social responses. However, objective physiological and behavioral data sup...

OBJECTIVES. Difficulties in processing emotional states are implicated in the aetiology and maintenance of diverse health conditions, including anorexia nervosa (AN) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This study sought to explore distress tolerance, self-silencing, and beliefs regarding the experience and expression of emotions in individuals diagnosed with AN and CFS. These conditions were ch...

Background and Objective: Hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit is a psychological crisis for family. However, reminiscence has positive effects on improvement of mental health. In this regard, study aimed to investigate writing distress tolerance spiritual health mothers with hospitalized newborns. Materials Methods: This quasi-experimental was performed 40 newborns admitted Shah...

264 The fact that alcohol is an addictive drug has been known to man for millennia. Alcohol abuse/dependence is the most common substance-related disorder. A drug can be defined as a substance that produces tolerance (increasingly large amounts are needed to produce the same effect) and withdrawal (psychological and physical distress develop after substance use ceases). The addicted person suff...