Journal of Anxiety Disorders 

TL;DR: The reduced measure (IUS-12) retained exemplary internal consistency, while correlating extremely well with the original IUS and related measures of anxiety and worry, and demonstrated a stable two-factor structure, representing both anxious and avoidance components of intolerance of uncertainty.

TL;DR: The development of the Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire to measure beliefs about worry and intrusive thoughts showed good psychometric properties on a range of indices of reliability and validity, and regression analyses showed that the independent predictors of worry were Positive Beliefs about Worry; Negative Beliefs About the Controllability of Thoughts and Corresponding Danger: and Cognitive Confidence.

TL;DR: Examination of lifetime Axis I psychiatric comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults found PTSD and partial PTSD were associated with elevated lifetime rates of mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, and suicide attempts.

TL;DR: Four predictors of fear of the coronavirus were found in a simultaneous regression analysis and 16 different topics of concern were identified based on participants’ open-ended responses, including the health of loved ones, health care systems overload, and economic consequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, two studies were conducted to further psychometric research on the recently developed Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), which proved highly internally consistent (cronbach's alpha =.94) and acceptably reliable over an average time lapse of 11 days (r =.67).