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Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the intentional damage to one’s body tissue in the absence of suicidal intent. NSSI primarily serves an emotion regulation function, with individuals engaging in self-injury to escape intense or unwanted emotion. Low distress tolerance has been identified as a mech...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7971082/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777518 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10915 |
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author | Slabbert, Ashley Hasking, Penelope Greene, Danyelle Boyes, Mark |
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description | Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the intentional damage to one’s body tissue in the absence of suicidal intent. NSSI primarily serves an emotion regulation function, with individuals engaging in self-injury to escape intense or unwanted emotion. Low distress tolerance has been identified as a mechanism that underlies self-injury, and is commonly assessed using the self-report Distress Tolerance Scale. There are mixed findings regarding the factor structure of the Distress Tolerance Scale, with some researchers utilising a higher-order distress tolerance score (derived from the scores on the four lower-order subscales) and other researchers using the four subscales as unique predictors of psychological outcomes. Neither of these factor structures have been assessed among individuals with a history of self-injury. Of note, an inability to tolerate distress (thought to underlie NSSI) may limit an individual’s capacity to accurately observe and report specific thoughts and emotions experienced in a state of heightened distress, which may impact the validity of scores on the Distress Tolerance Scale. Therefore, measurement invariance should be established before attributing NSSI-related differences on the scale to true differences in distress tolerance. We compared the Distress Tolerance Scale higher-order model with the lower-order four factor model among university students with and without a history of NSSI. Our results indicated that the lower-order four factor model was a significantly better fit to the data than the higher-order model. We then tested the measurement invariance of this lower-order factor model among individuals with and without a history of NSSI, and established configural and full metric invariance, followed by partial scalar and full residual error invariance. These results suggest the four subscales of the Distress Tolerance Scale can be used to confidently discern NSSI-related differences in distress tolerance. |
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spelling | pubmed-79710822021-03-25 Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury Slabbert, Ashley Hasking, Penelope Greene, Danyelle Boyes, Mark PeerJ Psychiatry and Psychology Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the intentional damage to one’s body tissue in the absence of suicidal intent. NSSI primarily serves an emotion regulation function, with individuals engaging in self-injury to escape intense or unwanted emotion. Low distress tolerance has been identified as a mechanism that underlies self-injury, and is commonly assessed using the self-report Distress Tolerance Scale. There are mixed findings regarding the factor structure of the Distress Tolerance Scale, with some researchers utilising a higher-order distress tolerance score (derived from the scores on the four lower-order subscales) and other researchers using the four subscales as unique predictors of psychological outcomes. Neither of these factor structures have been assessed among individuals with a history of self-injury. Of note, an inability to tolerate distress (thought to underlie NSSI) may limit an individual’s capacity to accurately observe and report specific thoughts and emotions experienced in a state of heightened distress, which may impact the validity of scores on the Distress Tolerance Scale. Therefore, measurement invariance should be established before attributing NSSI-related differences on the scale to true differences in distress tolerance. We compared the Distress Tolerance Scale higher-order model with the lower-order four factor model among university students with and without a history of NSSI. Our results indicated that the lower-order four factor model was a significantly better fit to the data than the higher-order model. We then tested the measurement invariance of this lower-order factor model among individuals with and without a history of NSSI, and established configural and full metric invariance, followed by partial scalar and full residual error invariance. These results suggest the four subscales of the Distress Tolerance Scale can be used to confidently discern NSSI-related differences in distress tolerance. PeerJ Inc. 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7971082/ /pubmed/33777518 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10915 Text en © 2021 Slabbert et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry and Psychology Slabbert, Ashley Hasking, Penelope Greene, Danyelle Boyes, Mark Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
title | Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
title_full | Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
title_fullStr | Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
title_full_unstemmed | Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
title_short | Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
title_sort | measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury |
topic | Psychiatry and Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7971082/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777518 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10915 |
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