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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Adolescents engage in a wide range of risky behaviors that their older peers shun, and at an enormous cost. Despite being older, stronger, and healthier than children, adolescents face twice the risk of mortality and morbidity faced by their younger peers. Are adolescents really risk-seekers or does some richer underlying preference drive their love of the uncertain? To answer that question, we...