The Relationship between Tolerance and Intolerance of Ambiguity and Big Five Personality Traits

Abstract

The paper presents the preliminary results of testing the relationship of tolerance of uncertainty, intolerance of uncertainty and interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty and personality traits on a sample of 87 people. A review of foreign studies on the relationship between these constructs is given. Revised NEO Personality Inventory [Orel VE, Senin IG, 2004] and the New Questionnaire of Tolerance of Uncertainty [Kornilova T.V., 2010] was used in order to test the relationship between personality traits and tolerance of uncertainty, intolerance of uncertainty and interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty.

Keywords: personality traits, Big five, tolerance of uncertainty, intolerance of uncertainty, interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25205/2658-4506-2019-12-1-91-114