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Intolerance of Uncertainty, Fear of Anxiety, and Adolescent Worry
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A 5 year, ten wave longitudinal study of 338 adolescents assessed the association between two forms of cognitive vulnerability (intolerance of uncertainty and fear of anxiety) and worry. Multilevel mediational analyses revealed a bidirectional and reciprocal relation between intolerance of uncertainty and worry in which change in one variable partially explained change in the other. Fear of anxiety and worry also showed evidence of a bidirectional relation, although change in fear of anxiety had a much weaker mediational effect on change in worry than vice versa. The findings show that relative to fear of anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty may play a greater role in the etiology of worry in adolescents.
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“Data also suggest that IU is a causal risk factor for high levels of worry and GAD. Experimental studies have shown that change in IU leads to corresponding changes in GAD symptoms (e.g., Grenier & Ladouceur, 2004), and a five-year longitudinal study found that IU predicts subsequent levels of worry during adolescence (Dugas et al., 2012).”
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“Data suggest that intolerance of uncertainty is a causal risk factor for high levels of worry and GAD and that it plays a key role in the etiology of GAD [39-43].”
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“Similarly, Dugas et al. (2012) found strong correlations between IU and worry over five years in adolescents.”
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“Such changes were not observed in the current study, probably due to the narrow age range recruited, with smaller numbers at its tails.”
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“a five-year longitudinal study found that IU predicts subsequent levels of worry during adolescence (Dugas et al., 2012).”
From Behavioral Experiments for Intolerance of Uncertainty: A Randomized Clinical Trial for Adults With Generalized Anxiety Disorder (2022) · cites this paper as Dugas et al., 2012
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dugas, M. J., Laugesen, N., & Bukowski, W. M.
- Affiliations
- Concordia University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Dugas, Michel J.
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Published
- 2012-02-03
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 863-870
- ISSN
- 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2835
- OpenAlex
- W2049413286
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 3.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Health Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- intolerance of uncertainty, adolescent worries, cognitive vulnerability, bidirectional relationship, mediation, anxiety disorders
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Cognition Disorders, Fear, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Problem Solving, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Uncertainty
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