title: Intolerance of uncertainty, not just right experiences, and compulsive checking: Test of a moderated mediation model on a non-clinical sample.
abstract: Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and not just right experiences (NJREs) have been claimed putative vulnerability factors for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of the present study was to test whether IU could represent a trans-diagnostic construct accountable for OC checking behaviors and whether NJREs could embody an OCD-specific criterion through which IU operates.
  
  
  
  One hundred and eighty-eight Italian community individuals completed self-report measures of IU, NJREs, OC symptoms, worry, anxiety, and depression. Mediation and moderated mediation models were tested using a bootstrapping approach, wherein IU was included as the independent variable as well as the moderator; checking behaviors were entered as the dependent variable; and NJRE severity was included as a mediator.
  
  
  
  The main findings highlighted that NJREs were a mediator of the relationship between IU and checking behaviors; nonetheless, in connection with medium levels of IU, NJREs no longer mediated the path. Furthermore, IU did not emerge to moderate the mediation.
  
  
  
  Despite their preliminary nature, the present results might be a hint for future research, as theoretical integration may represent a way to go for better understanding OCD etiology and phenomenology.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy. Electronic address: gioia.bottesi@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Gioia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bottesi
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy. Electronic address: marta.ghisi@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghisi
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University of Firenze, via di San Salvi 12, Complesso di San Salvi Padiglione 26, 50135 Firenze, Italy. Electronic address: claudio.sica@unifi.it.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sica
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience, (Ridley Building, 4th Floor), Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 7RU, United Kingdom. Electronic address: mark.freeston@ncl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Freeston
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D057566:Self Report; D035501:Uncertainty; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology