Achieving certainty about the structure of intolerance of uncertainty in a treatment-seeking sample with anxiety and depression

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-122

  McEvoy, Peter M ^a,b   Mahoney, Alison E J ^c  

^a Centre for Clinical Interventions ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Intolerance of uncertainty; Psychometrics; Transdiagnostic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY SCALE; MALE; NEUROSIS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VALIDITY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 78650229460     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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