Abstract:Distress tolerance (DT)--willingness to face internal discomforts--has a fuzzy boundary with Neuroticism (low Emotional Stability), raising questions about its independent contribution to mental health. We investigated DT’s overlap with Neuroticism and other Big Five factors in a structural model of personality and personality-disorder features in samples of university students (N = 1,025), emotional-disorder patients (N = 225), and substance-use patients (N = 210). In exploratory factor analyses, we found tha… Show more
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