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Daily Variation in Self-Rated Distress Tolerance and Emotion-Regulation Strategies in an At-Risk Community Sample
Two questions hidden inside one score
A person’s general sense of tolerating distress may not describe what happens on a particularly difficult day.
This collaborative project distinguishes stable differences between people from fluctuations within the same person across a 10-day experience-sampling design. It asks how distress tolerance and regulation strategies are organized at both levels without treating them as interchangeable.
Separate people from days
Typical differences and day-specific shifts should not be interpreted as the same process.
This view compares people’s typical levels across the study period.
A multilevel design for regulation
The study keeps the person-level and day-level questions visible at once.
LevelBetween-person and within-person
Data10-day experience sampling
ConstructsDistress tolerance and emotion regulation
OriginAva Rutgers’s thesis project
What changes when the unit is the day?
The level of analysis changes the psychological interpretation.
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Which patterns describe differences between people?
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Which patterns describe changes within one person?
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How does the level of analysis change the psychological interpretation?