The role of metacognition, tolerance ambiguity and psychological flexibility in predicting resilience

Despite widespread interest in ambiguity tolerance and other information-related individual differences, existing measures are conceptually dispersed and psychometrically weak. This paper presents the Spanish version of MSTAT-II, a short, stimulus-oriented, and psychometrically improved measure of an individual's orientation toward ambiguous stimuli. Results obtained reveal adequate reliability...

Background Physicians' tolerance of uncertainty (TU) is a trait potentially associated with desirable outcomes, and emerging evidence suggests it may change over time. Past studies of TU, however, have been cross-sectional and have not measured tolerance of the different, specific types of uncertainty that physicians confront. We addressed these limitations in a longitudinal exploratory study o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association of cognitive judgment and shyness with frequency and quality of flow experience. DESIGN AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of the relationship between psychological tendency and frequency and quality of flow experience in 68 college students, undertaken in Hiroshima, Japan. The predictors were Shyness Scale scores, measure of ambiguity toleran...

Preparing students to deal with and tolerate uncertainty or ambiguity is a major issue in medical education. There are many English-language scales assess tolerance of but no French-language scale has ever demonstrated validity evidence for its scores. We selected the Tolerance Ambiguity Medical Students And Doctors (TAMSAD) scale. Through structured process, original questionnaire was translat...