Emotional regulation, especially tolerance of uncertainty, supports physicians' management of clinical uncertainty¶
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q2 i? Tolerance of uncertainty mainly depends on emotional regulation, enabling work with provisional, gut-feeling-guided hypotheses and cognitive flexibility. → Joly Louise 2026
Evidence¶
Joly Louise 2026¶
Joly Louise, Nunes de Sousa Alexandra, Bardiau Marjorie, Dory Valérie, Bayot Marie, Lenoir Anne-Laure. (2026). Impact of emotional competence on clinical reasoning: a scoping review. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-113483
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Narrative synthesis of the review's uncertainty-management studies (23 of 98 articles addressed this CR category per Table 2); the review reports this relationship from predominantly non-interventional literature with no printed effect size.
"Tolerance of uncertainty mainly depends on emotional regulation, which enables physicians to work with provisional, intuition-based, gut-feeling-guided hypotheses and maintain cognitive flexibility in dynamic or ambiguous clinical situations."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Affect Regulation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Emotional Intelligence — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
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