Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Distress tolerance (DT) has been proposed as a possible contributor to the ability to successfully adhere to difficult behaviour changes, such as stopping problematic substance and cigarette use. A number of measures of DT have been used in attempts to predict behaviour change outcomes. Findings however, have been inconclusive and no one measure has shown consistent results. Importantly, no work has yet assessed the predictive value of DT measures in successful wei...