The Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ): Validation of a content-independent measure of repetitive negative thinking

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-232

  Ehring, Thomas ^a   Zetsche, Ulrike ^b   Weidacker, Kathrin ^a   Wahl, Karina ^c   Schönfeld, Sabine ^d   Ehlers, Anke ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Questionnaire; Reliability; Repetitive negative thinking; Rumination; Transdiagnostic processes; Validity; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PERSEVERATIVE THINKING QUESTIONNAIRE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPETITIVE NEGATIVE THINKING; SYMPTOM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THINKING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THINKING;

EID: 78651290818     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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