The Emotional Image Tolerance (EIT) task assesses tolerance of negative emotion induced by negatively valenced images. We made several minor modifications to the task (Study 1) and adapted the task to include positive and neutral images in order to assess whether individuals respond to the valence or the intensity of the image content (Study 2). In both studies, we assessed subjective distress, gender differences in task responses, and associations between behavioral and self-reported distress tolerance, and related constructs. Across both studies, the EIT successfully induced distress and gender differences were observed, with females generally indicating more distress than males. In Study 2, responses on the adapted EIT task were correlated with self-reported distress tolerance, rumination, and emotion reactivity. The EIT successfully induces distress and the correlations in Study 2 provide promising evidence of validity.

情绪图像容限（EIT）任务评估由负价图像引起的负情绪的容忍度。我们对该任务进行了几处较小的修改（研究1），并对该任务进行了调整，使其包括正面图像和中性图像，以便评估个人是否对图像内容的价数或强度做出响应（研究2）。在两项研究中，我们评估了主观困扰，任务响应中的性别差异以及行为和自我报告的痛苦容忍度之间的关联以及相关的结构。在两项研究中，EIT成功地诱发了困扰，并且观察到性别差异，女性通常比男性表现出更大的困扰。在研究2中，对适应性EIT任务的反应与自我报告的遇险耐受性，反省和情绪反应相关。