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Abstract
Social workers are called upon to assist people in coping with complex, often apparently insoluble, problems. Given that our goal is to assist people in finding their own satisfactory solutions, it is valuable to know the extent to which social workers entering the profession can tolerate these ambiguous problems sufficiently to allow clients to explore a broad range of solutions. This article presents data on the relationship between intolerance of ambiguity and a variety of performance and preference measures of 212 BSW and MSW students. Implications of these relationships for social work education are discussed.