Turkish Version Of The Distress Tolerance Scale: A Study Of Validity And Reliability

The aim of this research is to adapt the Distress Tolerance Scale to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 548 university students. Results of confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that this scale yielded four factors (tolerance, absorption, appraisal, and regulation), as original form and that the model was well fit (x²=316.43, df=84, p=0.00, RMSEA=.071, NFI=.94, CFI=.95, IFI=.95, RFI=.92, GFI=.93 and SRMR=.053). Internal consistency coefficients of four subscales were .62 for tolerance subscale, .66 for absorption subscale, .71 for appraisal subscale and .61 for regulation subscale. The overall internal consistency coefficient of the scale was .82. The test-retest reliability coefficients were found as .63 for overall scale and as .60 for tolerance subscale, .62 for absorption subscale, .64 for appraisal subscale and .58 for regulation subscale. The corrected item-total correlations of DTS ranged from .25 to .59. Overall results demonstrated that this scale can be used as a valid and reliable instrument in education and psychology.