The practice of medicine involves inherent ambiguity, arising from limitations of knowledge, diagnostic problems, complexities of treatment and outcome and unpredictability of patient response. Research into doctors' tolerance of ambiguity is hampered by poor conceptual clarity and inadequate measurement scales. We aimed to create and pilot a measurement scale for tolerance of ambiguity in medi...

Budner's (1962) tolerance for ambiguity scale is a well-known and widely used measure of ambiguity tolerance. Its reliability and factor structure were examined in the present study. Four hundred thirty-six undergraduate stttdents completed Budner's scale as part of a student assessment center program. The results of two confirmatory factor analyses failed to substantiate the plausibility of Bu...

The study was conducted to investigate how students’ multiple intelligences were related to their tolerance of ambiguity and English proficiency. Subjects were 173 English major students in a private university in northern Taiwan, including 49 males and 124 females. They helped to fill out questionnaires of Multiple Intelligences (MI) (Gardner, 1983) and Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity S...

Objective: Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD) has two subtypes, care-seeking type, and care-avoidant. There is little information about the differences between the two subtypes.  Methods: This study was carried out to compare perfectionism and tolerance of ambiguity in the subtypes of the IAD. To this end, a causal-comparative design was employed. The statistical population of the study included t...

this research is a comparative study of entrepreneurial characteristics of founders of non-governmental high school in tehran. the research population was the female and male’s founders of non-governmental high school in tehran (totally 507 persons). the sample was 213 people (90 women and 123 men) were selected by cluster sampling. the data were collected through questionnaire that measured tw...

Drawing on Robinson’s cognition hypothesis, the study attempted to examine how task conditions influence EFL learners’ oral performance and whether learners’ individual differences in terms of tolerance of ambiguity and self-efficacy mediate the effects of such conditions. To this end, 62 Iranian intermediate EFL learners from private language institutes in Tehran performed four dyadic decision...

As Web_2.0 technologies redefine the learning space, apprehension in the adult learner toward technology and alternative instruction could represent a significant barrier to an effective teaching and learning experience. Although tolerance for ambiguity has been highlighted as important in the development of creative, integrative thinking in the college setting, few studies have examined ambigu...

objective: according to psycho-social factors are effective on appearance and progression of heart disease, this study performed with the purpose of comparison tolerance of ambiguity, psychological capital and coping strategies in cardiac patients and health people. methods: the design study was descriptive-causal comparative. the statistical population includes all heart patients and healthy p...