Author(s): Botelho, Catarina ; Barbosa, Fernando ; Campos, Carlos ; Fernandes, Carina ; Ferreira-Santos, Fernando ; Marques-Teixeira, João ; Pasion, Rita ; Paiva, Tiago O. ; Seixas, Carlos
Date: 2022
Origin: Repositório da Universidade Portucalense
Subject(s): Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS)
Intolerance of uncertainty is defined as the individual’s excessive propensity to find unacceptable the probability of a negative event occurring (Dugas et al., 2001b; Buhr & Dugas, 2002). This propensity is brought up bya set of negative beliefs about uncertainty and its consequences (e.g., uncertainty is unacceptable and should be avoided, and/or it leads to the inability to act;Buhr & Dugas, 2002; Freeston et al., 1994; Sexton & Dugas, 2009). [...]
