Cognitive processes across anxiety disorders related to intolerance of uncertainty: Clinical review

Haegen, Marie Vander; Étienne, Anne-Marie

doi:10.1080/23311908.2016.1215773

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“…Another important phenomenon related to uncertainty is intolerance of uncertainty (IU). It is a construct consisting of 4 dimensions: the person perceives uncertainty as a stressful phenomenon, it is an intolerable situation that should be avoided, and the person considers uncertainty as something unfair, which leads to the inability to take action [ 39 ]. Research shows that IU may play a key role in anxiety disorders.…”

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Health-Promoting Factors and Their Relationships with the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Anxiety Disorders during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Background: Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental disorders in the modern world. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the onset of many mental disorders in people who did not have them before. It can be suspected that in people who already had anxiety disorders before the pandemic, their quality of life has significantly deteriorated. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the relationships between life satisfaction, acceptance of illness, the severity of anxiety and depression symptoms and health behaviors in a group of patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and methods: The study was conducted in the period from March 2020 to March 2022. There were 70 people among the respondents, including 44 women aged 44.06 ± 14.89 years and 26 men aged 40.84 ± 16.72 years. All persons were diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. Patients with other co-occurring disorders were excluded, i.e., depression and signs of organic damage to the central nervous system, as were those with cognitive disorders that prevented the completion of the questionnaires. The following scales were used in the study: the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS), Health Behavior Inventory (HBI) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and the Mann–Whitney U test were used for statistical analyses. Results: In the Satisfaction in Life questionnaire, the respondents obtained an average score of 17.59 ± 5.74 points. In the AIS scale, the mean score obtained by the patients was 27.10 ± 9.65 points. In the overall Health Behavior Inventory (HBI), the average score was 79.52 ± 15.24 points. In the HADS questionnaire, probants obtained an average of 8.17 ± 4.37 points in the depression subscale and 11.55 ± 4.46 points in the anxiety subscale. In addition, there were significant negative correlations between life satisfaction (SWLS) and the severity of anxiety and depression (HADS). The lower the perceived quality of life, the significantly higher the anxiety and depressive disorders. The result obtained in the Health Behavior Inventory (HBI) as well as in the subscale of Prohealth Activities (PHA) was negatively associated with the severity of anxiety symptoms. Prohealth activities should therefore be developed to prevent anxiety disorders, as well as to promote positive mental attitudes. In the study, the average result obtained in the subscale of positive mental attitudes correlated negatively with both anxiety and depressive symptoms. Conclusions: Life during the pandemic was assessed by patients as unsatisfactory. Health-promoting behaviors, and especially positive mental attitudes, may play a protective role in relation to anxiety and depressive symptoms in a situation of increased stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a group of patients with anxiety disorders.

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Health-Promoting Factors and Their Relationships with the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Anxiety Disorders during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…To understand the life situation of parents and propose effective support for them, I thought it was important to investigate factors associated with uncertainty, as well as its consequences for parents' long-term psychological effects. Therefore, I decided to explore the concept of uncertainty, and I conducted a second literature review (Vander Haegen & Etienne, 2016). My objectives were to understand which factors could be related to uncertainty in health.…”

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Using a Repeated-Measures Design in Pediatric Oncology Studies

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and at the Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci (university graduates) in Belgium. She earned her PhD in 2017. Her scientific work is on psychological and cognitive adjustment among parents of a childhood cancer survivor. Her doctoral thesis was related to the concept of intolerance of uncertainty and its influence on parental adjustment (psychological, cognitive, somatization). During her doctoral work, she developed and used new models for understanding the parental experience of having a child who has survived cancer. She focused in particular on the relationship between the intolerance of uncertainty and its consequences on cognitive processes and clinical distress. In 2017, Marie Vander Haegen accepted a scientific collaborator position at the University of Liège, where she has worked since that time. Since 2019, she has served as a scientific collaborator at the University of Paris Descartes (France) where she is developing a project related to e-Health and parents of a childhood cancer survivor and childhood cancer patient. Her current research looks at the development of e-Health and new technologies in the field of pediatric chronic diseases (cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes).

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“…Although various factors that lead to an increase in anxiety during pandemics are known ( Taylor, 2019 ), it is insufficiently clear how intrapsychic factors are related to interpersonal and social factors. The aim of this article is to formulate and to test a model that would integrate the findings concerning IU and tendency to worry ( Boswell et al, 2013 ; Carleton, 2016a , b ; Vander Haegen and Etienne, 2016 ) with findings regarding social factors that have an influence on anxiety during pandemics ( Cheung and Tse, 2008 ; Kim and Kim, 2018 ; Taylor, 2019 ). People are afraid of contagion ( Bitan et al, 2020 ; Lee et al, 2020 ) and of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic as well ( Canady, 2020 ; Korajlija and Jokic-Begic, 2020 ).…”

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Intolerance of Uncertainty and Tendency to Worry as Mediators Between Trust in Institutions and Social Support and Fear of Coronavirus and Consequences of the Pandemic

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The aim of this article is to formulate and test a model integrating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) findings regarding the importance of intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and tendency to worry with findings regarding the importance of trust in institutions, other people, and social support. We assumed that trust in institutions, other people, and social support reduce fear of the coronavirus and of the consequences of the pandemic in a direct way, but also indirectly by enhancing one’s sense of control and diminishing the tendency to worry which, further, attenuates fear of the coronavirus and fear of the consequences of the pandemic. An online survey was conducted among the Serbian general population (N = 1409, 78.1% female, M = 38.82, SD = 9.24) at the end of April 2020, which included questionnaires on fear of SARS-CoV-2, fear of consequences of the pandemic, social support, trust in other people and trust in political and health institutions. The model has been validated by data from our study suggesting that it represents one possible pattern of interrelationships between social and intrapsychic variables in the pandemic situation. Results also showed that the COVID-19 related fears are related more strongly to intrapsychic variables – IU and tendency to worry – than to variables operationalizing social context relevant for coping with pandemic at the social and individual level.

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Cognitive processes across anxiety disorders related to intolerance of uncertainty: Clinical review

Cited by 16 publications

References 89 publications

Health-Promoting Factors and Their Relationships with the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Anxiety Disorders during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health-Promoting Factors and Their Relationships with the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Anxiety Disorders during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Using a Repeated-Measures Design in Pediatric Oncology Studies

Intolerance of Uncertainty and Tendency to Worry as Mediators Between Trust in Institutions and Social Support and Fear of Coronavirus and Consequences of the Pandemic

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