The Effect of Psychological Intervention on Intolerance of Uncertainty, Worry and Perceived Stress Among Female Adolescents

Abstract

The age of storm and stress doesn’t escape the wrath of uncertainty. People feel unequipped when there is lack of certainty, this uneasiness causes them to adopt an unfavourable set of beliefs, adolescents face a handful of uncertain situations all day.  This study aims to explore the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty, worry and perceived stress and to assess the effectiveness of psychological intervention on the aforementioned variables among female adolescents. A sample of 120 individuals were selected through convenience sampling to study the relationship between the variables, 30 individuals who have high intolerance of uncertainty were selected and constituted the experimental group for the intervention. Intolerance of uncertainty scale, Penn state worry scale, Perceived stress scale were the scales used. Correlational research design was used to determine the relationship between variables whereas one group pretest posttest experimental research design is adopted to study the impact of the intervention. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between all three variables and the psychological intervention has impacted the levels of intolerance of uncertainty, worry and perceived stress.