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17382896

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-19
pubmed:abstractText
Worry is crucial in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and has been associated with several other adverse health outcomes. Yet, little is known about the frequency and perseveration of worry in daily life, and its predictability by widely used trait questionnaires. In this study 432 students completed the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), the Worry Domains Questionnaire (WDQ) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait version (STAI-T) and kept a log of worry frequency and duration during six consecutive days and nights. The results showed that worry is a very common phenomenon that is predicted by the two trait worry questionnaires, independent of trait anxiety. The often clinically utilized PSWQ predicted worry duration better than the WDQ, and exclusively predicted night-time worry and several other indices of perseverative and potentially pathogenic worry. Although this study provides some support for the predictive validity of the PSWQ and the WDQ, these questionnaires did not account for the larger part of variance in daily worry. Future studies of worry and its associated perseverative processes should consider using momentary assessments.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0005-7967
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1835-44
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Capturing worry in daily life: are trait questionnaires sufficient?
pubmed:affiliation
Leiden University, Institute for Psychological Research, Clinical and Health Psychology Unit, Leiden, The Netherlands. bverkuil@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Validation Studies