Cross‐cultural translation and validation of the Chinese version Distress Tolerance Scale for adolescents with chronic physical disease

• Published in: Child : care, health & development Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. e13270 - n/a
• Main Authors: Lee, Shu‐Li, Wu, Li‐Min, Lin, Shu‐Yuan, Chen, Tzu‐Han, Lin, Wei‐Ting
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2024
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Chinese languages; Chronic Disease; Chronic illnesses; chronic physical disease; Confirmatory factor analysis; Correlation; Cronbach's alpha; Cross-Cultural Comparison; cross‐cultural translation; Diabetes; Discriminant analysis; Emotional disorders; Emotional distress; emotional distress tolerance; English language; Exploratory factor analysis; Factor Analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Glycemic control; Hospitals; Humans; Male; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Negative events; Negative life events; Psychological Distress; Psychometrics; Reliability; Reproducibility of Results; scale; Stress, Psychological - diagnosis; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Taiwan; Teenagers; Tolerance; Translating; Translation; Translations; validation; Validity; Taiwan; chronic physical disease; cross‐cultural translation; emotional distress tolerance; scale; adolescents; validation

Introduction Chronic physical disease (CPD) makes life filled with many negative events in adolescents, but not all adolescents experiencing negative life events proceed to develop emotional distress, only those with low emotional distress tolerance (EDT). A valid and reliable scale to measure EDT i...