Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model

PURPOSE: This study investigated the relationships among intolerance of uncertainty (IU), social anxiety (SA), rumination, and pessimistic explanatory style (PES) in a sample of college students. METHODS: Questionnaires were completed by 533 college students. RESULTS: Rumination partially mediated t...

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Autores principales: Li, Jie, Xia, Ying, Cheng, Xinying, Li, Shijia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33013601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.565107
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Xia, Ying
Cheng, Xinying
Li, Shijia
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description PURPOSE: This study investigated the relationships among intolerance of uncertainty (IU), social anxiety (SA), rumination, and pessimistic explanatory style (PES) in a sample of college students. METHODS: Questionnaires were completed by 533 college students. RESULTS: Rumination partially mediated the relationship between IU and SA, and PES plays an important role in moderating the direct path (IU→SA) and the first part of the mediation process. When the PES is low, IU predicts SA less strongly but is related to rumination. Conversely, IU in individuals with a high PES predicts SA more directly. CONCLUSION: Rumination plays a mediating role between IU and SA, and the PES moderates the direct path and the first stage of the mediation model.
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spelling pubmed-75057342020-10-02 Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model Li, Jie Xia, Ying Cheng, Xinying Li, Shijia Front Psychol Psychology PURPOSE: This study investigated the relationships among intolerance of uncertainty (IU), social anxiety (SA), rumination, and pessimistic explanatory style (PES) in a sample of college students. METHODS: Questionnaires were completed by 533 college students. RESULTS: Rumination partially mediated the relationship between IU and SA, and PES plays an important role in moderating the direct path (IU→SA) and the first part of the mediation process. When the PES is low, IU predicts SA less strongly but is related to rumination. Conversely, IU in individuals with a high PES predicts SA more directly. CONCLUSION: Rumination plays a mediating role between IU and SA, and the PES moderates the direct path and the first stage of the mediation model. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7505734/ /pubmed/33013601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.565107 Text en Copyright © 2020 Li, Xia, Cheng and Li. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Li, Jie
Xia, Ying
Cheng, Xinying
Li, Shijia
Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
title Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
title_full Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
title_fullStr Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
title_full_unstemmed Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
title_short Fear of Uncertainty Makes You More Anxious? Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on College Students’ Social Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
title_sort fear of uncertainty makes you more anxious? effect of intolerance of uncertainty on college students’ social anxiety: a moderated mediation model
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33013601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.565107
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