ArticlePloS one2016
Intolerance of Uncertainty: A Temporary Experimental Induction Procedure.
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- Decomposing Intolerance of Uncertainty: No Association With Affective Decision Making in a Community Sample.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Measuring Intolerance of Uncertainty After Acquired Brain Injury: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12.Assessment · 2024Article
- Intolerance of Uncertainty as a Cognitive Vulnerability for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Qualitative Review.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2023Article
- Aversive Reactivity: A Transdiagnostic Functional Bridge Between Neuroticism and Avoidant Behavioral Coping.Journal of emotion and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Testing times: the association of intolerance of uncertainty and metacognitive beliefs to test anxiety in college students.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Media Exposure to COVID-19 Predicted Acute Stress: A Moderated Mediation Model of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesIntolerance of uncertainty (IU) is a trans-diagnostic construct involved in anxiety and related disorders. Research focused on cross-sectional reporting, manipulating attitudes toward objective and impersonal events or on treatments designed to reduce IU in clinical populations. The current paper presents an experimental procedure for laboratory manipulations of IU and tests mediation hypotheses following the Intolerance of Uncertainty Model.
methodsOn pre-test, undergraduate volunteers (Study 1, n = 43;68% women. Study 2, n = 169;83.8% women) were asked to provide an idiosyncratic future negative life event. State-IU, Worry, Positive and Negative Affect were assessed after that a standardized procedure was used to identify event's potential negative consequences. The same variables were assessed on post-test, after that participants were asked to read-through increasing and decreasing IU statements.
resultsTemporary changes on IU were consistently reproduced in both studies. Participants receiving increasing IU instructions reported greater state-IU, Worry and Negative Affect than those receiving decreasing IU instructions. However, this latter condition was not different from a control one (Study 2). Both studies revealed significant indirect effects of IU induction instructions on Worry and Negative Affect through state-IU. LIMITATIONS: Both studies used undergraduate psychology students samples, younger than average population and predominantly female. Experimental manipulation and outcome measures belongs to the same semantic domain, uncertainty, potentially limiting generalizability.
conclusionsResults supported the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed IU manipulation for non-clinical sample. Findings parallel clinical research showing that state-IU preceded Worry and Negative Affect states.
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