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- The Effect of Covert Narcissism on Relationship Addiction in Early Adulthood: The Double Mediating Effects of Distress Tolerance and Emotion Dysregulation
- Hyojin Kim, Jong-Nam Kim
- STRESS. 2026;34(3):125-134. Published online September 30, 2026
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2026.34.3.125
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This study examined the pathway through which covert narcissism leads to relationship addiction through distress tolerance and emotion dysregulation in early adulthood.
Methods
Data were collected from 394 Korean adults aged 18–39 years who were recruited using online convenience sampling. Participants completed measures of covert narcissism, distress tolerance, emotion dysregulation, and relationship addiction. The PROCESS macro was used for data analysis.
Results
Both distress tolerance and emotion dysregulation partially mediated the relationship between covert narcissism and relationship addiction. Their double mediating effect was also significant, and the direct effect of covert narcissism on relationship addiction remained significant. This pattern remained when gender was included as a covariate.
Conclusions
Individuals with high covert narcissism are sensitive to negative evaluations and easily hurt, thereby lowering their capacity to tolerate distress and intensifying difficulties in emotion regulation. Subsequently, they attempt to fulfil their unmet needs through others and become excessively absorbed in relationships. Therefore, interventions may be more effective when self-compassion-based approaches are used first to strengthen distress tolerance, followed by emotion regulation skills training, such as dialectical behavior therapy.
- Effect of Distress Tolerance Improvement Intervention for Problematic Drinkers
- Gwang-Pyo Jang, Hyae Young Yoon
- STRESS. 2025;33(1):22-32. Published online March 28, 2025
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2025.33.1.22
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This study examined the effects of an intervention to improving distress tolerance, drinking refusal self-efficacy, and alcohol consumption in problematic drinkers.
Methods
Adults who reported problematic drinking were randomly assigned to either the intervention group (n=11) or comparison group (n=11). The groups were either administered treatment to improve distress tolerance or watch a video in which abstinent women talked about their drinking and abstinence experiences.
Results
The repeated-measures ANOVA showed no significant change in alcohol consumption in the intervention group. However, appraisal, a distress tolerance subscale, and opportunity for drink refusal self-efficacy, a drink refusal self-efficacy subscale, increased.
Conclusions
Short-term interventions to improve distress tolerance may help change distress tolerance and drinking refusal self-efficacy.
- The Structural Relationships among Optimism, Distress Tolerance, Grief Avoidance, Intrusive Rumination, Deliberate Rumination, and Psychological Well-Being on Undergraduates Exposed to Loss
- La Yeoung Kim, Jin Yi Jang
- STRESS. 2020;28(3):107-117. Published online September 30, 2020
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2020.28.3.107
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Background This study sought to analyze the structural relationships between optimism, distress tolerance, grief avoidance, intrusive rumination, deliberate rumination, and psychological well-being among undergraduates who have experienced a loss.
Methods Subjects comprised 435 university students (258 females and 177 males), with their duration of grief experience and the elapsed period from when the loss occurred having been taken into consideration.
Results Distress tolerance, grief avoidance, intrusive rumination, and deliberate rumination mediated the relationship between optimism and psychological well-being sequentially. Additionally, there were significant differences between the “less than 6 months” and “more than 6 months” groups in the structural relationships between optimism, distress tolerance, grief avoidance, intrusive rumination, deliberate rumination, and psychological well-being.
Conclusions The direct path of grief avoidance to psychological well-being was not significant, but it was found to have a significant effect through the sequential mediations of intrusive rumination and deliberate rumination. This result suggests the need for active intervention to allow people to face and cope with life after a loss, without avoiding the loss experience.
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- Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Psikolojik İyi Oluşları ile Üstbilişsel (Metakognitif) Düşünme ve Ruminatif Düşünceleri Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelemesi
Levent GÖLLER, Fatmagül GÜRBÜZ
Humanistic Perspective.2022; 4(1): 64. CrossRef
- Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Psikolojik İyi Oluşları ile Üstbilişsel (Metakognitif) Düşünme ve Ruminatif Düşünceleri Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelemesi
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