Are worry, rumination, and post-event processing one and the same?. Development of the repetitive thinking questionnaire.

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 509-519

  McEvoy, Peter M ^a,b   Mahoney, Alison E J ^c   Moulds, Michelle L ^d  

^a Centre for Clinical Interventions ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Post event processing; Repetitive thinking; Rumination; Transdiagnostic; Worry

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE OF REPETITIVE THINKING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; COGNITIVE AVOIDANCE QUESTIONNAIRE; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; META COGNITIONS QUESTIONNAIRE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCALE; POSITIVE BELIEFS ABOUT RUMINATION SCALE; POST EVENT PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPETITIVE NEGATIVE THINKING; REPETITIVE THINKING; RUMINATION; SHAME; THINKING; THOUGHT CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRE; WHITE BEAR SUPPRESSION INVENTORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952551780     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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