Kylie Francis

TL;DR: This paper found that participants with high levels of intolerance of uncertainty reported more concern about ambiguous situations than did participants with low levels of uncertainty, and that the tendency to make threatening interpretations of ambiguous situations was more highly related to the degree of uncertainty than to worry, anxiety, or depression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the strength and specificity of the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and worry with regards to depression in a nonclinical sample, and found that worry was more highly and specifically related to IU than to dysfunctional attitudes (a cognitive process involved in depression).

TL;DR: The results lend further support to the validity of the model and suggest that intolerance of uncertainty and negative problem orientation are related to the severity of GAD, independently of sociodemographic and associated clinical factors.

TL;DR: The Structured Interview on Beliefs about Worry (SIBAW) as mentioned in this paper ) is an instrument for assessing positive beliefs about worry, which has a four-factor structure, including beliefs in worry as an aid to problem solving and motivation, worry as protection from negative emotions, worrying as a positive personality trait, and worry as a act that can directly alter events (magical thinking).

TL;DR: In this article, symptom change profiles in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) receiving either cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or applied relaxation (AR) were examined, and it was hypothesized that changes in worry would uniquely predict changes in somatic anxiety.