Intolerance of Uncertainty and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms: An Investigation within a Treatment Seeking Trauma-Exposed Sample

Background: Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in the literature. However, no research to date has investigated the relationship between IU and PTSS within a clinical trauma-exposed sample, which is an important next step in the literature and crucial for the generalizability of these findings. Therefore, the current study hypothesized that IU would be related to increased PTSS within a clinical sample of trauma-exposed individuals. Further, we hypothesized that IU would be related to elevated PTSS after accounting for anxiety sensitivity (AS) and negative affect (NA), two known correlates of PTSS.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - August 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mary E. Oglesby, Brittany A. Gibby, Brittany M. Mathes, Nicole A. Short, Norman B. Schmidt Source Type: research