Hannah Jenkins, Kate Theodore, Myra Cooper, Jennifer Breen, Olivia Hewitt
{"title":"An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the adapted PHQ-9 and GAD-7 outcome measures for use with adults with intellectual disability.","authors":"Hannah Jenkins, Kate Theodore, Myra Cooper, Jennifer Breen, Olivia Hewitt","doi":"10.1017/S1352465825000104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465825000104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>People with intellectual disability often face barriers accessing mainstream psychological services due to a lack of reasonable adjustments, including the absence of adapted versions of routine outcome measures. Adapted versions of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) have been created for adults with ID.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the adapted PHQ-9 and GAD-7.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The adapted PHQ-9 and GAD-7 and the Glasgow Depression and Anxiety Scales (GDS-ID, GAS-ID) were administered to 47 adults (<i>n</i>=21 clinical group; <i>n</i>=26 community group) with ID. Cross-sectional design and between-group analyses tested for discriminant validity. Concurrent and divergent validity was tested using correlational designs. Reliability was investigated by internal consistency and test-retest analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The clinical group scored significantly higher on the adapted PHQ-9 (<i>t</i><sub>45</sub>=-2.28, <i>p</i>=.03, 95% CI [-7.09, -.45]) and GAD-7 (<i>t</i><sub>45</sub>=-3.52, <i>p</i>=.001, 95% CI [-7.44, -2.02]) than the community group, evidencing discriminant validity. The adapted PHQ-9 correlated with the GDS-ID (<i>r</i><sub>47</sub>=.86, <i>p</i><.001) and the adapted GAD-7 correlated with the GAS-ID (<i>r</i><sub>46</sub>=.77, <i>p</i><.001). The adapted PHQ-9 (Cronbach's α=.84, ICC=.91) and GAD-7 (Cronbach's α=.86, ICC=.77) had good internal consistency and test-retest reliability.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Preliminary research suggests the adapted PHQ-9 and GAD-7 are valid and reliable measures. They could provide a reasonable adjustment for the minimum dataset used in NHS Talking Therapies and can be easily administered in routine clinical practice. Further work to establish additional psychometric properties is now required.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilience in diversity: a restricted range of roles is associated with more severe moral injury.","authors":"Kari E James, Blake M McKimmie, Fiona Maccallum","doi":"10.1017/S1352465825000116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465825000116","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Moral injury is a potentially deleterious mental health outcome that can follow exposure to events that challenge one's moral code. Theoretical models suggest a multi-faceted self-concept may support adaptation following such events. However, little is known about the relationship between self-concept complexity and outcomes following potentially morally injurious events.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This cross-sectional study investigated hypothesized relationships between self-concept complexity and outcomes in adults (<i>n</i>=172) exposed to potentially morally injurious events.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants completed validated measures of event-related distress, traumatic stress, depression and anxiety, and a self-complexity task in which they provided multiple descriptors of their self-concept. Responses were coded for overall diversity, defined as number of categories of self-descriptors, and role diversity, defined as number of social and activity-based roles.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multiple regression analyses found greater role diversity independently predicted lower event-related distress, while overall self-diversity and total number of self-descriptors did not.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings indicate diversity in active facets of the self (e.g. relational or activity-based roles) may buffer the effects of a potentially morally injurious event.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tanja A Kuut, Fabiola Müller, Annemarie M J Braamse, Jan Houtveen, Chantal P Rovers, Hans Knoop
{"title":"Cognitive behavioural therapy for severe fatigue following COVID-19 in adolescents: a serial single-case observational study of five consecutively referred patients.","authors":"Tanja A Kuut, Fabiola Müller, Annemarie M J Braamse, Jan Houtveen, Chantal P Rovers, Hans Knoop","doi":"10.1017/S1352465825000098","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465825000098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Severe fatigue following COVID-19 is a debilitating symptom in adolescents for which no treatment exists currently.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness and feasibility of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for severe fatigue following COVID-19 in adolescents.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A serial single-case observational design was used. Eligible patients were ≥12 and <18 years old, severely fatigued and ≥6 months post-COVID-19. Five patients, consecutively referred by a paediatrician, were included. The primary outcome was a change in fatigue severity, assessed with the fatigue severity subscale of the Checklist Individual Strength, 12 weeks after the start of CBT, tested with a permutation distancing two-phase A-B test. Secondary outcomes were the presence of severe fatigue, difficulty concentrating and impaired physical functioning directly post-CBT as determined with questionnaires using validated cut-off scores. Also, the frequency of post-exertional malaise (PEM) and absence from school directly post-CBT determined with self-report items were evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All five included patients completed CBT. Twelve weeks after starting CBT for severe post-COVID-19 fatigue, three out of five patients showed a significant reduction in fatigue severity. After CBT, all five patients were no longer severely fatigued. Also, four out of five patients were no longer physically impaired and improved regarding PEM following CBT. All five patients reported no school absence post-CBT and no difficulties concentrating.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides a first indication for the effectiveness and feasibility of CBT among adolescents with post-COVID-19 fatigue.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7617664/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through the mind's eye: mapping associations between hoarding tendencies and voluntary and involuntary mental imagery.","authors":"I Sabel, L Stavropoulos, J R Grisham","doi":"10.1017/S1352465825000074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465825000074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Preliminary evidence suggests that mental imagery may be an important clinical feature in hoarding. Individuals who hoard use objects as receptacles for memories, and experience more frequent, intrusive and distressing images compared with the general community. However, the specific nature of these associations remains poorly understood.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We aimed to investigate whether hoarding traits were related to the ability to voluntarily generate imagery in different sensory modalities, and uniquely with the tendency to experience negative intrusive imagery. We also aimed to understand the mechanism by which mental imagery experiences may confer vulnerability to hoarding problems.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Undergraduates (<i>n</i>=328) completed questionnaires assessing hoarding, beliefs about objects, imagining ability across the senses, and negative intrusive imagery, as well as symptom measures of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress. We conducted Pearson's correlations, hierarchical regressions, and mediational analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Hoarding tendencies were associated with reduced visualising ability, but not with the capacity to deliberately generate imagery in other senses. Hoarding was also uniquely associated with the tendency to experience negative involuntary imagery when controlling for symptoms of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress. Object-memory beliefs partially mediated the relationship between hoarding and reduced visualising ability. Object attachment partially mediated the relationship between hoarding and negative intrusive imagery.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest that visualisation difficulties may promote a reliance on objects to facilitate recall, and experiencing negative intrusive imagery may strengthen object attachment. Findings may inform imagery-based conceptualisations and treatments of hoarding problems, such as imagery training or modification interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The belief that being high is a natural part of your personality predicts an increase in manic symptoms over time in bipolar disorder.","authors":"Thomas Richardson, Warren Mansell","doi":"10.1017/S1352465824000389","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465824000389","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Several psychological models of bipolar disorder propose that certain types of appraisals can lead to increases in manic symptoms.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We tested whether the belief that being 'high' is a natural part of one's personality and correlates with manic symptoms 4 months later when controlling for manic symptoms at baseline.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This was a prospective 4-month follow-up design using self-report measures. Forty people with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder completed a measure of manic symptoms, a measure of appraisals associated with bipolar disorder, and a single-item measure, 'To what extent do you feel like being \"high\" is a natural part of your personality?', at baseline and follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The single-item measure showed modest stability over time and construct validity in its correlation with a standardised measure of appraisals in bipolar disorder. As predicted, the single-item measure correlated with manic symptoms at follow-up when controlling for manic symptoms at baseline.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The belief that being 'high' is a natural part of one's personality is a potential predictor of manic symptoms. Further research needs to study the potential mediating mechanisms such as activating behaviours, and control for indicators of the bipolar endophenotype.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"80-84"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142401619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charlotte Smith, Catherine E L Ford, Tim Dalgleish, Patrick Smith, Anna McKinnon, Ben Goodall, Isobel Wright, Victoria Pile, Richard Meiser-Stedman
{"title":"Cognitive therapy for PTSD following multiple-trauma exposure in children and adolescents: a case series.","authors":"Charlotte Smith, Catherine E L Ford, Tim Dalgleish, Patrick Smith, Anna McKinnon, Ben Goodall, Isobel Wright, Victoria Pile, Richard Meiser-Stedman","doi":"10.1017/S1352465824000444","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465824000444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cognitive therapy for PTSD (CT-PTSD) is an efficacious treatment for children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following single incident trauma, but there is a lack of evidence relating to this approach for youth with PTSD following exposure to multiple traumatic experiences.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To assess the safety, acceptability and feasibility of CT-PTSD for youth following multiple trauma, and obtain a preliminary estimate of its pre-post effect size.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Nine children and adolescents (aged 8-17 years) with multiple-trauma PTSD were recruited to a case series of CT-PTSD. Participants completed a structured interview and mental health questionnaires at baseline, post-treatment and 6-month follow-up, and measures of treatment credibility, therapeutic alliance, and mechanisms proposed to underpin treatment response. A developmentally adjusted algorithm for diagnosing PTSD was used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No safety concerns or adverse effects were recorded. Suicidal ideation reduced following treatment. No participants withdrew from treatment or from the study. CT-PTSD was rated as highly credible. Participants reported strong working alliances with their therapists. Data completion was good at post-treatment (<i>n</i>=8), but modest at 6-month follow-up (<i>n</i>=6). Only two participants met criteria for PTSD (developmentally adjusted algorithm) at post-treatment. A large within-subjects treatment effect was observed post-treatment and at follow up for PTSD severity (using self-report questionnaire measures; <i>d</i>s>1.65) and general functioning (CGAS; <i>d</i>s<1.23). Participants showed reduced anxiety and depression symptoms at post-treatment and follow-up (RCADS-C; <i>d</i>s>.57).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that CT-PTSD is a safe, acceptable and feasible treatment for children with multiple-trauma PTSD, which warrants further evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"47-62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiwen Zhou, Chengxiong Zhou, Yexing Zheng, Huaiyi Li, Chao Tang, Xiang Liu, Ming Ma, Dai Li, Yuanhui Li, Liqun Zhang, Jilai Xie, Linlin Du
{"title":"Combining internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy and attention bias modification for reducing depressive symptoms in firefighters: a randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Xiwen Zhou, Chengxiong Zhou, Yexing Zheng, Huaiyi Li, Chao Tang, Xiang Liu, Ming Ma, Dai Li, Yuanhui Li, Liqun Zhang, Jilai Xie, Linlin Du","doi":"10.1017/S1352465824000407","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465824000407","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Firefighters are frequently exposed to traumatic events and stressful environments and are at particularly high risk of depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The present study aimed to examine the impact of a combined internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) and attention bias modification (ABM) intervention to reduce depressive symptoms in firefighters.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The study was a randomized controlled trial carried out in Kunming, China, and involved the recruitment of 138 active firefighters as participants. The intervention lasted for an 8-week duration, during which participants participated in ABM exercises on alternating days and concurrently underwent eight modules of iCBT courses delivered through a smartphone application. Baseline and post-intervention assessments were conducted to evaluate the effects of the intervention.</p><p><strong>Results and discussion: </strong>Results indicated that the combined iCBT and ABM intervention was significantly effective in reducing symptoms of depression compared with the no intervention control group (<i>U</i>=1644, <i>p</i><0.001, Wilcoxon <i>r</i>=0.280). No significant change was observed in attention bias post-intervention (<i>U</i>=2460, <i>p</i>=0.737, Wilcoxon <i>r</i>=0.039), while a significant increase was observed in attention-bias variability (<i>U</i>=3172, <i>p</i><0.001, Wilcoxon <i>r</i>=-0.287). This study provides evidence for the effectiveness of the combined iCBT and ABM intervention in reducing depressive symptoms among firefighters. This study provides conceptual support and preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of the combined iCBT and ABM intervention in reducing depressive symptoms among firefighters.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"63-73"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142711305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florentina Ecaterina Oaie, Joanne L Bower, Craig Steel
{"title":"The development of the Negative Mental Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ-N).","authors":"Florentina Ecaterina Oaie, Joanne L Bower, Craig Steel","doi":"10.1017/S1352465824000304","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465824000304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mental imagery plays a key role in the onset and maintenance of psychological disorders, and has become the target of psychological interventions for the treatment of several anxiety-related conditions. However, there are currently no transdiagnostic measures designed to assess the varied dimensions of mental imagery relevant to psychopathology.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To develop and validate a new measure assessing the experiences and appraisals of negative mental imagery.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The initial item pool was generated through a comprehensive literature review and interviews with subject-matter experts. An online community sample provided data for the exploratory (<i>n</i>=345) and confirmatory (<i>n</i>=325) factor analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The new 16-item Negative Mental Imagery Questionnaire demonstrated four subscales (Intrusiveness, Controllability, Beliefs about Mental Imagery, and Realness). Reliability and validity were good to excellent for both the full- and sub-scales.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Appraisals of mental imagery captured by the new measure are consistent with previous research on mental imagery and psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"17-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagery-based cognitive therapy to reduce emotional dysregulation and mood instability in bipolar disorder: a case-series study.","authors":"Thomas Paulet, Luisa Weiner","doi":"10.1017/S1352465824000420","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465824000420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Bipolar disorder (BD) has a significant impact on functioning in the absence of acute mood episodes. This has been associated with subsyndromal symptoms, co-morbidities, and emotional dysregulation. The present study aims to evaluate the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of imagery-based cognitive therapy (ImCT) in a French community setting. We were particularly interested in the link between mental imagery and emotional dysregulation as this may clarify the mechanisms involved in the potential efficacy of the therapy and ultimately improve its relevance.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Ten participants underwent ImCT, with weekly assessments of mood fluctuations, anxiety, and emotional dysregulation conducted over 1 month (i.e. pre-therapy, post-therapy and 1-month follow-up). Recovery, post-traumatic stress symptoms and self-compassion were measured at baseline and post-therapy. Attrition rates and satisfaction were measured.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All participants who completed therapy (<i>n</i>=8) reported high levels of satisfaction. Five of them showed reliable individual improvement on emotion dysregulation scores. At the group level, a significant decrease in mood fluctuation with a large effect size was found post-therapy.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>ImCT showed good acceptability among participants who completed the study. Importantly, our study is the first to provide an indication that ImCT may alleviate subsyndromal mood symptoms but also emotional dysregulation in individuals with BD. This latter finding is particularly relevant given the scarcity of validated psychosocial interventions targeting emotional dysregulation in BD.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142740947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The development and validation of the Intolerance of Uncertainty in Social Interactions Scale.","authors":"Anne Eible, Brian Fisak","doi":"10.1017/S1352465824000353","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1352465824000353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is commonly defined as the tendency for one to interpret uncertainty as negative or threatening. Most general or non-specific measures of IU show a strong relationship with worry and generalized anxiety disorder symptoms; however, a specialized measure of intolerance of uncertainty in social situations could provide insight into the role of IU in social anxiety. The purpose of this study was the development and preliminary validation of the Intolerance of Uncertainty in Social Interactions Scale (IU-SIS), a comprehensive measure designed to assess intolerance of uncertainty in social situations. Participants consisted of a non-referred sample. Based on an exploratory factor analysis, a two-factor solution was retained, with factors labelled <i>Social Ambiguity</i> and <i>Need to Reduce</i>. Both subscales were found to have good reliability and validity. Both subscales of the IU-SIS predicted up variance on measures of social anxiety after controlling for variance explained by a well-established general/non-specific measure of IU. Overall, the IU-SIS shows promise as a tool to elucidate the association between intolerance of uncertainty and social anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":47936,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"74-79"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142568421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}