Browsing by Subject "Intolerance of uncertainty"

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    Adaptation of the State Desperation Scale: Its Association with Intolerance of Uncertainty, Entrapment and Resilience
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2025-10) Akyıl, Yusuf; Oral, Tuncay; Erdinç, Beste; Sin departamento asociado
    Desperation is a significant conceptual framework that eluci-dates individuals' profound sense of despair and their impetus to engage in immediate action in response to it. The present investigation comprises three studies aimed at translating the State Desperation Scale into the Turkish language. The 9-item State Desperation Scale was validated using Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Study I, which involved a sample size of 530 participants. The analysis of measurement invariance revealed a lack of structural and metric invariance observed among different gender groups. The analysis of item responses indicated that all items exhibited significant differentiation. The State Desperation Scale demonstrated a high level of reliability, as evidenced by the reliability coefficients of Cronbach's α, McDonald's β, and Guttmann's κ6. In the second study, a sample size of 505 participants was used to conduct both correlation and network analy-sis. The analysis revealed a significant correlation between desperation and the big five personality traits, as well as depression, anxiety, and stress. Study III employed correlation analysis and structural equation modeling to examine the mediating influence of intolerance of uncertainty and en-trapment on the relationship between desperation and psychological resili-ence. The sample size for this study was 443 participants. Psychological re-silience is predicted by state desperation, with entrapment and intolerance of uncertainty playing a mediating role. The study findings indicate that the Turkish adaptation of the State Desperation Scale exhibits robust psycho-metric properties.
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    Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Çelik, Eyüp; Biçener, Eda; Bayın, Ümit; Uğur, Erol
    The aim of the present study is to explore the mediation role of anxiety sensitivity on the relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19. The study was conducted with the relational method. The research data were collected online from 302 individuals (Male n = 76, Female n = 226) with Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3, and Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale. The result of both mediation analysis and bootstrapping analysis (with 5000 bootstrap resamples) showed that the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19 was mediated by anxiety sensitivity. Anxiety sensi-tivity decreased the effect of intolerance of uncertainty on fear of COVID-19. Moreover, comparing intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety sensitivity in terms of their predictive levels of the fear of COVID-19, it was con-cluded that anxiety sensitivity predicted the fear of COVID-19 more, and that anxiety sensitivity included the variance of intolerance to the uncer-tainty associated with the fear of COVID-19.
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    Obsessive beliefs and uncertainty in obsessive compulsive and related patients. International
    (Elsevier, 2022) Olivares-Olivares, Pablo J.; Rosa-Alcázar, Ángel; Martínez-Esparza, Inmaculada Concepción; Rosa-Alcázar, Ana Isabel; Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos
    Antecedentes/objetivo El objetivo del presente estudio fue examinar las diferencias entre las creencias obsesivas y la intolerancia a la incertidumbre entre pacientes con trastorno obsesivo compulsivo (TOC), tricotilomanía, excoriación, trastorno de ansiedad generalizada (TAG) y un grupo de control sano. Método 130 participantes entre 17 y 62 años ( Media = 29,56, DE = 11,81) diagnosticados con TOC (n = 36), tricotilomanía ( n = 18), excoriación ( n = 17), TAG ( n = 31) y El grupo de control sano ( n = 28) fue evaluado mediante el Inventario Español de Creencias Obsesivas Revisado y la Escala de Intolerancia a la Incertidumbre. Resultados El grupo de tricotilomanía presentó una de las creencias obsesivas más altas destacando la sobreimportancia de los pensamientos, la fusión pensamiento-acción-moral, la importancia del control de los propios pensamientos. El grupo con TOC también obtuvo puntuaciones más altas en responsabilidad inflada y probabilidad de fusión de pensamiento y acción. El grupo GAD destacó en incertidumbre inhibitoria y prospectiva. El nivel de depresión influyó en las creencias obsesivas mientras que la ansiedad influyó en la incertidumbre inhibitoria y prospectiva. Conclusiones Variables cognitivas como las creencias obsesivas y la intolerancia a la incertidumbre deben considerarse en la prevención e intervención de los trastornos obsesivos y de ansiedad