%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of attitudes towards ambiguity on subclinical depression and anxiety in healthy individuals
%A Hiroyuki Enoki
%A Munenaga Koda
%A Sayako Nishimura
%A Tsuyoshi Kondo
%J Health Psychology Open
%@ 2055-1029
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2055102919840619
%X This study aims to examine the effects of multidimensional attitudes towards ambiguity on subclinical depression and anxiety in healthy individuals. Attitudes Towards Ambiguity Scale, consisting of four clusters (enjoyment, anxiety, exclusion, and noninterference), Self-Rating Depression Scale, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory¨Ctrait version were administered to 1019 Japanese volunteers. The result of a regression analysis suggested that the score of Attitudes Towards Ambiguity Scale¨Cenjoyment factor significantly contributed to the Self-Rating Depression Scale score while that of Attitudes Towards Ambiguity Scale¨Canxiety factor significantly contributed to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory¨Ctrait score. Among attitudes toward ambiguity, enjoyment may have protective effects against subclinical depression whereas anxiety can enhance anxiety-trait in nonclinical individuals
%K ambiguity tolerance
%K attitude
%K hierarchical multiple regression analysis
%K Self-Rating Depression Scale
%K State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
%K uncertainty
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055102919840619