Factor Structure of the Revised Indecisiveness Scale and Association with Risks for and Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Attentional Control
AbstractIndecisiveness is trait-like difficulty making decisions across time and situations. Past investigations indicate that indecisiveness is associated with Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Obsessive –Compulsive Disorder as well as with neuroticism, Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU), and avoidance. The most used measure of indecisive is Frost and Shows’ (Behav Res Therapy, 1993. http://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(93)90121-a) Indecisiveness Scale (IS), which has been revised to remove situation-s pecific indecision items. Research evaluating the original and revised IS (RIS) has found diverse factors, ranging from one to three, and scale content, reflecting positive attitudes towards decision-making, fears about decision-making consequences, and decisional avoidance. Given this variability a cross investigations, we performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses using the revised IS to evaluate competing factor models. Our analyses supported a two-factor model with Aversive Indecisiveness (RIS-AI) and Positive Attitudes Towards Decision-Making (RIS-Positive) best fitting the dat a for 511 participants. We also found that RIS-AI was a unique predictor of anxious arousal, IU, and multiple forms of avoidance over RIS-Positive. RIS-AI was also a stronger positive predictor of worry, general emotional distress, and self-appraised difficulty with attentional focus than RIS-Positi ve. In contrast, RIS-Positive uniquely and negatively predicted ...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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