ArticleJournal of personality disorders2021
Engaging in Risky and Impulsive Behaviors to Alleviate Distress Mediates Associations Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Externalizing Psychopathology.
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- Latent profiles of psychopathological and criminological characteristics in prisoners: associations with suicide risk.Health & justice · 2026Article
- Social Media Use as an Impulsive 'Escape From Freedom'.Psychological reports · 2025Article
- Race moderates the impact of intolerance of uncertainty on mental health symptoms in Black and White community adults.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health during Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Relationship between behavioral inhibition/activation system and Internet addiction among Chinese college students: The mediating effects of intolerance of uncertainty and self-control and gender differences.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Intolerance of uncertainty, rumination, post-traumatic stress symptoms and aggression during COVID-19: a serial mediation model.European journal of psychotraumatologyArticle
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Abstract
Despite increasing recognition that intolerance of uncertainty is a transdiagnostic dimension of psychopathology, very little research has investigated its relevance for externalizing psychopathology and related risky/impulsive behavior. Ninety-five unselected adults (ages 19-55, 53% men) recruited from the community completed a measure of intolerance of uncertainty, externalizing traits and problems, and risky/impulsive behavior. Higher levels of intolerance of uncertainty were associated with greater endorsement of externalizing symptoms (e.g., aggression, alcohol/marijuana use, problematic impulsivity) and last-month risky and impulsive behaviors. Relations between intolerance of uncertainty and externalizing symptoms/risky behaviors were mediated by a motivation to engage in these behaviors to avoid distress, but not by the motivation to experience pleasurable emotions. Findings suggest that difficulty tolerating uncertainty may confer risk for the externalizing spectrum of psychopathology by increasing the likelihood that an individual will engage in risky behaviors to alleviate distressing or unpleasant emotions.
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