Uncertainty, checking, and intolerance of uncertainty in subclinical obsessive compulsive disorder: An extended replication

Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 338-344

  Toffolo, Marieke B J ^a   van den Hout, Marcel A ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a,b   Hooge, Ignace T C ^a   Cath, Daniëlle C ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Altrecht Academic Anxiety Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Checking; Eye tracking; Intolerance of uncertainty; OCD; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHECKING BEHAVIOR; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE INVENTORY REVISED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPLICATION STUDY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84908028221     PISSN: 22113649     EISSN: 22113657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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