The relationship between worry, rumination, and comorbidity: Evidence for repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic construct

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 313-320

  McEvoy, Peter M ^a,b   Watson, Hunna ^a,b,c,d   Watkins, Edward R ^b,e   Nathan, Paula ^a  

^a Centre for Clinical Interventions ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Repetitive thinking; Rumination; Transdiagnostic; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTHYMIA; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT WORRY; PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RUMINATION; RUMINATIVE RESPONSE SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THINKING; THINKING REPETITIVE NEGATIVE;

COMORBIDITY; REPETITIVE THINKING; RUMINATION; TRANSDIAGNOSTIC; WORRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887429557     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.06.014     Document Type: Article

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