Self-reported intolerance of uncertainty and behavioural decisions

What do I do now? Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with discrete patterns of anticipatory physiological responding to different contexts

“…The results from the decision‐making task are in line with previous work related to IU, showing that high IU individuals may seek to reduce uncertainty (Jacoby et al, , ; Ladouceur et al, ) and may feel relief from certainty. Previous work has shown individual differences in IU to modulate decision‐making during tasks with valenced outcomes (Carleton et al, ; Luhmann et al, ; Tanovic, Hajcak et al, ; Tanovic, Pruessner, & Joormann, ). Here, it was shown that individual differences in IU modulate decision‐making in the absence of valenced outcomes or consequences, thus suggesting that anticipating making a decision under uncertainty is enough to induce heightened physiological responses.…”

“…Individuals high in IU have been found to report more distress (Jacoby, Abramowitz, Reuman, & Blakey, ; Jacoby, Reuman, Blakey, Hartsock, & Abramowitz, ) and make more draws to decision on the beads task (Jacoby, Abramowitz, Buck, & Fabricant, ; Ladouceur, Talbot, & Dugas, ). In addition, a few studies have demonstrated that high IU individuals are more likely to choose immediate smaller rewards over waiting for larger rewards (Carleton et al, ; Luhmann, Ishida, & Hajcak, ; Tanovic, Hajcak, & Joormann, ). Taken together, these findings suggest that individuals scoring high in IU will seek more information to reduce uncertainty and will not wait to make a decision when there is no additional information about the uncertain outcome.…”

Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale: Measurement invariance among adolescent boys and girls and relationships with anxiety and risk taking

“…In addition to its role in the adolescent-related increase in internalizing behavior problems, IU may be central in risk taking, which is enhanced during adolescence too (e.g., Boyer, 2006;Dahl, 2004;Reyna & Farley, 2006;Steinberg, 2004). That is, taking risks is inherently associated with opting for uncertainty (cf., Defoe, Dubas, Figner, & Van Aken, 2015;Smith, Ebert, & Broman-Fulks, 2016;Van Duijvenvoorde et al, 2015), and high IU has been proposed to be related to avoiding risks (e.g., Carleton et al, 2016;Jacoby, Abramowitz, Buck, & Fabricant, 2014;Jacoby, Abramowitz, Reuman, & Blakey, 2016), unless risky choices are associated with less immediate uncertainty (Luhmann, Ishida, & Hajcak, 2011). That is, high IU is associated with increased information intake before (e.g., Jacoby et al, 2014) or increased distress during (e.g., Jacoby et al, 2016) making a decision, as well as slower and less profitable risky choice behavior (Carleton et al, 2016a).…”

Factors Affecting life Satisfaction of Employees under Financial Threat

“…Oglesby and Schmidt (2017) revealed that intolerance of uncertainty was linked with the high state of prospective anxiety when things are made uncertain. Carleton, Duranceau, Shulman, Zerff, Gonzales, and Mishra (2016) found that higher intolerance of uncertainty is linked with greater risk-averse behavior. Flores, Lopez, Vervliet, and Cobos (2018) investigated that prospective intolerance of uncertainty might be a vulnerability element for excessive and inflexible avoidance behavior which is significantly related to psychological distress.…”