Intolerance of uncertainty and attentional networks: Unique associations with alerting |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Baylor University, United States;2. University of Regina, Canada;1. School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia;2. Centre of Clinical Interventions, Perth, Australia;3. Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, Curtin University, Perth, Australia;4. School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;1. Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom;2. Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom;1. Department of Psychology, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada;2. Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada;1. Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States;2. University of Illinois—Chicago, Department of Psychology, 1007 W. Harrison St. (M/C 285), Chicago, IL 60607, United States |
| |
| Abstract: | The present study sought to extend our understanding as to how intolerance of uncertainty (IU) relates to information-processing by investigating associations between IU and attentional networks, including alerting, orienting, and executive attention. Based upon prior research, IU was expected to cluster with alerting. An unselected sample of college students (N = 86; 79% women) completed self-report measures of IU and state anxiety, as well as the attention network test. Among the attentional networks, IU only shared a positive association with alerting and the association remained intact after statistically controlling for state anxiety. State anxiety did not moderate the association between IU and alerting. Although two IU dimensions (prospective and inhibitory) both shared a positive association with alerting, only prospective IU was associated with alerting after statistically controlling for state anxiety. The results provide evidence that IU relates to an overfunctioning of the alerting attentional network, which may suggest a role of hypervigilance and a greater influence of bottom-up processing in relation to IU. Implications for how these results advance our understanding of possible links between IU and anxiety disorders are discussed. |
| |
| Keywords: | Alerting Anxiety Attention Attention network test Intolerance of uncertainty Unique associations with alerting |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
