The current review and synthesis was designed to provocatively develop and evaluate the
proposition that “fear of the unknown may be a, or possibly the, fundamental fear” (Carleton, …

Intolerance of uncertainty is the tendency of an individual to consider the possibility of a
negative event occurring unacceptable, irrespective of the probability of occurrence. It is a key …

… The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship,
and/or publication of this article: R. Nicholas Carleton’s research is supported by the …

The current review and synthesis serves to define and contextualize fear of the unknown
relative to related constructs, such as intolerance of uncertainty, and contemporary models of …

This review covers the current cognitive behavioural treatments available to address fear-avoidance
beliefs in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). Four types of treatment …

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) – a dispositional characteristic resulting from negative beliefs
about uncertainty and its implications – may be an important construct in anxiety disorders …

Modern anxiety disorder models implicitly include intolerance of uncertainty (IU) as a critical
component for the development and maintenance of these pervasive social and economic …

Background The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff, 1977)
is a commonly used freely available self-report measure of depressive symptoms. Despite …

Fears related to anxiety sensitivity (AS)—illness/injury sensitivity, fear of negative evaluation,
and fear of pain—may have important theoretical associations with intolerance of …

… that the psychometric properties of the BFNE were almost identical to those of the FNE, with
the total scores correlating at r 5.96. The BFNE has demonstrated high internal consistency (…