Explore how uncertainty affects your expectations and ability to act with the 12-item IUS-12.
Method and research sourcesExplore how uncertainty affects your expectations and ability to act with the 12-item IUS-12.
Add all 12 answers scored 1–5 for a total of 12–60. Seven items form prospective anxiety (7–35); five form inhibitory anxiety (5–25). No items are reversed.
The original publication and supporting material document the questionnaire and its scoring.
R. Nicholas Carleton, M. A. Peter J. Norton, Gordon J. G. Asmundson
David Johnson, Wingman Ho, Beggum Uddin, Samuel Tetteh-Quarshie, Jayne Morriss
Explore related experiences, practical guidance and support.
How to distinguish an anxious prediction from a problem you can address, what to try when tense, and when to seek professional help. A practical example and the limits of self-help.
How to distinguish necessary quality from endless revision, agree on completion criteria and test a fear of mistakes through a safe task.
Complete the 21-item BAI and read a careful, non-diagnostic interpretation of anxiety symptoms experienced during the past month.
Explore concern over mistakes, personal standards, parental expectations and criticism, doubts, and organization with the 35-item FMPS.
No. It describes your response to uncertainty. Diagnosis requires a broader assessment of symptoms, circumstances and their effect on daily life.
