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Understanding Adolescent Worry: The Application of a Cognitive Model
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The relationship between worry and 4 cognitive variables, intolerance of uncertainty, positive beliefs about worry, negative problem orientation, and cognitive avoidance, was examined in an adolescent sample of 528 boys and girls aged 14-18. The participants completed questionnaires assessing worry, somatic anxiety symptoms, and the variables mentioned above. The results show that (a) intolerance of uncertainty, positive beliefs about worry, and negative problem orientation each account for a significant amount of variance in adolescent worry scores in the multiple regression, and (b) the discriminant function derived from the 4 variables is effective in classifying moderate and high worriers into their respective groups (72.8% correct classification). Furthermore, analyses demonstrate that intolerance of uncertainty has the strongest association with worry scores and is the most important variable in discriminating between moderate and high adolescent worriers. These results suggest that intolerance of uncertainty plays a key role in our understanding of adolescent worry.
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“Studies have found IU to be strongly correlated with the severity of adolescent worry, with the remaining processes in the original IU-model being important but less so; particularly beliefs about worry (Fialko et al., 2012;Gillett, Bilek, Hanna, & Fitzgerald, 2018;Laugesen, Dugas, & Bukowski, 2003).”
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“These findings provide support for the cognitive model of excessive worry developed by Dugas et al. (1998), in which IU was posited to play the central role in the development and maintenance of worry (Laugesen, Dugas, & Bukowski, 2003).”
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“Individuals who are intolerant of uncertainty find uncertain situations stressful and upsetting; have a tendency to interpret all ambiguous information as threatening and find it difficult to function in the face of uncertainty (Buhr and Dugas 2002, 2009; Laugesen et al. 2003).”
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“Individuals who are intolerant of uncertainty find uncertain situations stressful and upsetting; have a tendency to interpret all ambiguous information as threatening and find it difficult to function in the face of uncertainty (Buhr and Dugas 2002, 2009; Laugesen et al. 2003).”
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“Individuals who are intolerant of uncertainty find uncertain situations stressful and upsetting; have a tendency to interpret all ambiguous information as threatening and find it difficult to function in the face of uncertainty (Buhr and Dugas 2002, 2009; Laugesen et al. 2003).”
From Towards a Treatment for Intolerance of Uncertainty for Autistic Adults: A Single Case Experimental Design Study. (2018) · cites this paper as Laugesen et al. 2003
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- Authors
- Laugesen, N., Dugas, M. J., & Bukowski, W. M.
- Affiliations
- Concordia University (CA)
- Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Dugas, Michel J.
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Published
- 2003-02
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-64
- ISSN
- 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2835
- OpenAlex
- W133066772
- Semantic Scholar
- 6ba35026f9ccd670baa25ca9202ed9bbf6acdf8b
- Cited by
- 224
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 3.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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 › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Keywords
- adolescent worries, intolerance of uncertainty, negative problem orientation, cognitive avoidance, somatic anxiety
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Anxiety, Defense Mechanisms, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Male, Personality Inventory, Problem Solving, Psychometrics
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