Personality and worry: The role of intolerance of uncertainty

• Zhihui Yang

  Beijing Forestry University

• Ruiming Wang

  Beijing Normal University

• Hui Chen

  Beijing Forestry University

• Jiali Ding

  Beijing Forestry University

We examined the relationship between personality and worry, and tested a mediation model in which intolerance of uncertainty (IU) mediated this relationship. Participants comprised 1,135 Chinese college undergraduates who completed the Chinese versions of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale, and the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Short Scale for Chinese. Results showed that neuroticism, extraversion, and IU were significantly correlated with worry. The paths between personality (neuroticism and extraversion) and worry, and the paths mediated by IU, were significant. Participants’ IU mediated the relationship between personality factors of neuroticism and extraversion, and worry. The results indicated that IU can be considered as a partial mediator of the relationship between personality and worry.

1. Zhihui Yang, Beijing Forestry University
   Department of Psychology
2. Ruiming Wang, Beijing Normal University
   School of Psychology
3. Hui Chen, Beijing Forestry University
   Department of Psychology
4. Jiali Ding, Beijing Forestry University
   Department of Psychology

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