Intolerance of Uncertainty Is Associated With Increased Threat Appraisal and Negative Affect Under Ambiguity but Not Uncertainty
| Autor: | Jessamine Chen, Peter Lovibond |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Generalized anxiety disorder Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Vulnerability factor Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Retrospective Studies Expectancy theory 05 social sciences Uncertainty Ambiguity Galvanic Skin Response medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders 030227 psychiatry Negative mood Clinical Psychology Affect Female Worry Cues Psychology Photic Stimulation |
| Zdroj: | Behavior therapy. 47(1) |
| ISSN: | 1878-1888 |
| Popis: | Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) has gained increasing interest as a vulnerability factor for worry in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and other emotional disorders. We extended the procedure of Grupe and Nitschke (2011) to compare threat processing in High IU ( n = 29) and Low IU ( n = 26) participants. Participants viewed four cues: two reference cues that preceded aversive pictures on 100% or 0% of trials, and a target cue that preceded aversive pictures on 50% of trials (Uncertain condition). Participants were instructed about these probabilities in advance. In addition, we surprised participants with a second target cue that also preceded aversive pictures on 50% of trials but that had not been mentioned in the instructions (Ambiguous condition). Results provided preliminary evidence that High IU participants showed greater online threat expectancy, postexperimental covariation estimates and negative mood for the target cues compared to the reference cues. The results also suggest that among high IU individuals, ambiguity, rather than uncertainty per se, may be a particularly powerful trigger for biased threat appraisal and negative affect. Clinically, the results suggest that patients with high IU may benefit from interventions to help them calibrate the degree of risk in situations involving ambiguous threat. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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