Coping with uncertainty: the construction and validation of a new measure

Greco, Veronica; Roger, Derek

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(00)00156-2

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“…More specifically, building and extending on the emotional uncertainty work by Greco and Roger (2001), our findings suggest that reminding people of their personal uncertainties does not yield a strong main effect on people's reactions of religious worldview defense but that the effect of personal uncertainty is moderated by the extent to which people experience uncertainty to be a threatening event. Thus, an important precondition for the impact of uncertainty salience on religious reactions may be that it should be perceived as an emotionally threatening experience (Greco & Roger, 2001). If uncertainty is not considered a threatening event, then reminding people of their personal uncertainties may not have strong or significant effects on reactions of religious worldview defense.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…The questionnaire that respondents completed first measured respondents' emotional reactions to experiencing uncertainty in their personal lives. To this end, respondents answered the Emotional Uncertainty Scale of Greco and Roger (2001). The items in this scale ask respondents to indicate on a 7-point Likert-type scale, ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), the extent to which they agree with statements such as "I get worried when a situation is uncertain" and "Facing uncertainty is a nerve wracking experience."…”

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“…More specifically, by means of an Internet study (including more than 1,500 respondents) and a more controlled laboratory experiment we examine both the basic and applied aspects of the social psychology of religious worldview defense; that is, how people react in terms of negative affective reactions toward extremely antireligious statements that threaten their religious beliefs and/or that may violate their views of how one should communicate about religious issues. In our two studies, we test the hypothesis that salience of personal uncertainty concerns (Van den Bos, 2001; Van den Bos, Poortvliet, Maas, Miedema, & Van den Ham, 2005) as well as individual differences in emotional uncertainty (Greco & Roger, 2001; Van den Bos, Euwema, Poortvliet, & Maas, in press) and strength of religiousness may moderate religious worldview defense reactions. We shortly introduce the relationship between concerns of personal uncertainty, 9/11, and worldview defense.…”

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“…Respondents were readers of a Dutch psychology magazine that is respectful about other religious worldviews and how one should communicate about religious issues. In the study, we first measured respondents' scores on the Emotional Uncertainty Scale of Greco and Roger (2001). After this, we made respondents' personal uncertainty concerns salient by using the method developed by Van den Bos (2001;Van den Bos et al, 2005).…”

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On the Psychology of Religion: The Role of Personal Uncertainty in Religious Worldview Defense

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In the present article, we examine the basic and applied aspects of the social psychology of religious worldview defense; that is, how people react in terms of negative affective reactions toward extremely antireligious statements that threaten their religious beliefs and/or may violate their views of how one should communicate about religious issues. An Internet study (N = 1,529) and a laboratory experiment (N = 151) provide evidence for the hypothesis that salience of personal uncertainty concerns may lead people to react with more negative affective reactions toward extremely negative statements about religion, particularly when people are inclined to think of personal uncertainty as an emotionally threatening experience and when they are strongly religious. Implications for the psychology of religion and the social psychology of uncertainty and worldview defense are discussed.

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“…Furthermore, patients may also not desire or have sufficient psychological capacity to tolerate information about uncertainty. 13, 55–57 There are also practical and ethical limits to increasing patient uncertainty—which takes time and risks overwhelming patients with information and diverting attention from other important clinical endeavors. 58 Clinicians may not be able to fully address all of the uncertainties that present in a given situation.…”

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Varieties of Uncertainty in Health Care: A Conceptual Taxonomy

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Uncertainty is a pervasive and important problem that has attracted increasing attention in health care, given the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine, shared decision making, and patient-centered care. However, our understanding of this problem is limited, due in part to the absence of a unified, coherent concept of uncertainty. There are multiple meanings and varieties of uncertainty in health care, which are not often distinguished or acknowledged although each may have unique effects or warrant different courses of action. The literature on uncertainty in health care is thus fragmented, and existing insights have been incompletely translated to clinical practice. In this paper we attempt to address this problem by synthesizing diverse theoretical and empirical literature from the fields of communication, decision science, engineering, health services research, and psychology, and developing a new integrative conceptual taxonomy of uncertainty. We propose a three-dimensional taxonomy that characterizes uncertainty in health care according to its fundamental sources, issues, and locus. We show how this new taxonomy facilitates an organized approach to the problem of uncertainty in health care by clarifying its nature and prognosis, and suggesting appropriate strategies for its analysis and management.

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The impact of cognitive predispositions on exploration decisions in the minerals industry

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Minerals exploration is conducted within an environment of ambiguity in the information and a high degree of uncertainty concerning success. In an extension and application of Tetlock (2005) the present research examined the impact of cognitive predispositions on the quality of minerals exploration decision-making. Utilising instruments specifically designed to assess thinking and judgement predispositions results indicate that for this sample (n ¼ 94) an enjoyment of rational thinking and the need for cognitive closure were predictive of lower estimated percentages of the likelihood of finding an exploitable deposit keeping geophysical data constant. Several counter-intuitive findings related to the relationship between likelihood and amount of expenditure were also found. The findings add further support to Tetlock's (2005) call to hold experts in all fields to account for the recommendations they make and to examine not just what they think but how they think.

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Coping with uncertainty: the construction and validation of a new measure

Cited by 194 publications

References 39 publications

On the Psychology of Religion: The Role of Personal Uncertainty in Religious Worldview Defense

On the Psychology of Religion: The Role of Personal Uncertainty in Religious Worldview Defense

Varieties of Uncertainty in Health Care: A Conceptual Taxonomy

The impact of cognitive predispositions on exploration decisions in the minerals industry

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