= 99) completed measures of acculturative stress, distress tolerance, emotion dysregulation, and internalizing symptoms. There was a significant Acculturative Stress × Distress Tolerance interaction explaining 5.02% and 4.19% of the variance in anxious arousal and traumatic intrusions, respectively. Acculturative stress was significantly positively associated with anxious arousal and traumatic intrusions only at lower levels of distress tolerance. There was also a significant Acculturative Stress × Emotion Dysregulation interaction explaining 7.46% of the variance in anxious arousal. Acculturative stress was significantly positively associated with anxious arousal only at higher levels of emotion dysregulation. Acculturative stress was associated with anxious arousal and traumatic intrusions among Latinos who drink hazardously with lower distress tolerance and/or higher emotion dysregulation. Enhancing distress tolerance and lowering emotion dysregulation may protect Latino individuals who engage in hazardous drinking and experience acculturative stress against internalizing problems, and these processes may serve as targets in future intervention programming. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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