Increasingly certain about uncertainty: Intolerance of uncertainty across anxiety and depression

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 468-479

  Carleton, Nicholas R ^a   Mulvogue, Myriah K ^a   Thibodeau, Michel A ^a   McCabe, Randi E ^b   Antony, Martin M ^c   Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Depression; Diagnostic differentiation; Intolerance of uncertainty; IUS 12; Normative; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY SCALE 12; KERNEL METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84858221049     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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