To Be Sure, To Be Sure: Intolerance of Uncertainty Mediates Symptoms of Various Anxiety Disorders and Depression

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-545

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

^a Australian Capital Territory   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Intolerance of uncertainty; Mediation; Transdiagnostic

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84855975105     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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