Boelen Paul A, Reijntjes Albert
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
J Anxiety Disord. 2009 Jan;23(1):130-5. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.04.007. Epub 2008 May 13.
Research has shown that intolerance of uncertainty (IU)--the tendency to react negatively to situations that are uncertain--is involved in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). There is uncertainty about the specificity of IU. Some studies have shown that IU is specific for GAD. Other studies have shown that IU is also involved in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). No studies have yet examined IU in social anxiety, although it is possible that IU plays a role in anxiety responses that can be experienced in social-evaluative situations. This study examined the relationship between IU and social anxiety among 126 adults. Findings revealed that IU explained a significant amount of variance in social anxiety severity when controlling for established cognitive correlates of social anxiety (e.g., fear of negative evaluation) and for neuroticism. Furthermore, it was found that IU was related with symptom levels of GAD, OCD, and social anxiety, but not depression, when controlling the shared variance among these symptoms.
研究表明，对不确定性的不耐受（IU）——即对不确定情况做出负面反应的倾向——与广泛性焦虑症（GAD）有关。IU的特异性存在不确定性。一些研究表明，IU是GAD所特有的。其他研究表明，IU也与强迫症（OCD）有关。尽管IU可能在社交评价情境中出现的焦虑反应中起作用，但尚无研究考察过社交焦虑中的IU。本研究考察了126名成年人中IU与社交焦虑之间的关系。研究结果显示，在控制社交焦虑已有的认知相关因素（如对负面评价的恐惧）和神经质后，IU解释了社交焦虑严重程度中相当大的变异量。此外，研究发现，在控制这些症状之间的共同变异后，IU与GAD、OCD和社交焦虑的症状水平相关，但与抑郁无关。
