Repetitive Negative Thinking: A Transdiagnostic Correlate of Affective Disorders

Repetitive negative thinking as a predictor of depression and anxiety: A longitudinal cohort study

“…These results concur with those of previous studies (Arditte et al, 2016;Hur et al, 2017;McEvoy and Brans, 2012;Topper et al, 2014) and our own cross-sectional study of the same participants at T6 showing that the common dimension of RNT was significantly associated with each of the depressive and anxiety disorders, comorbidity among depressive and among anxiety disorders, as well as the common core of depressive, anxiety and avoidance symptoms (Spinhoven et al, 2015). However, in contrast to the rather large cross-sectional relations in our previous study (>.50), the prospective relations in the present study had a small effect size (<.30).…”

“…In addition, it has been found that PTQ scores prospectively predict severity of depressive symptoms in a nonclinical sample (Topper et al, 2014), also after controlling for baseline severity (Raes, 2012). Given the high overlap among different measures for RNT, a few studies have tried to identify common variance across measures of RNT using structural equation modelling (Arditte et al, 2016;Hur et al, 2017;McEvoy and Brans, 2012;Segerstrom et al, 2000;Spinhoven et al, 2015). Overall, these studies show that the shared variance of perseverative…”

“…thinking, worry and rumination scales is very large and that an underlying factor for RNT is associated with severity of depressive and anxiety symptoms (Arditte et al, 2016;Hur et al, 2017;McEvoy and Brans, 2012;Segerstrom et al, 2000;Spinhoven et al, 2015) as well as with individual depressive and anxiety disorders and comorbidity among depressive and among anxiety disorders (Spinhoven et al, 2015). However, over and above a general factor accounting for the commonality shared by the RNT measures, rumination and worry measures still show a differential and unique although smaller effect on measures for symptom severity.…”

A Five Factor Model of Perseverative Thought

“…The continued dominance of an informal categorical taxonomy is at odds with a growing empirical literature in healthy adults that has explored underlying features of non-pathological spontaneous thought (e.g., Andrews-Hanna et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2018) and a clinical literature suggesting that shared variance between PT subtypes accounts for the preponderance of variance in their relationship to anxiety, depression, and other forms of psychopathology (Arditte et al, 2016;Ehring & Watkins, 2008;Harvey et al, 2004;Topper et al, 2017). A few studies have used within-person momentary approaches to study mind-wandering in healthy adults (e.g., Andrews-Hanna et al, 2013).…”

“…Several studies concluded that trait measures of worry and rumination fit a bifactor model (e.g., Topper et al, 2014) or load with other PT subtypes to form a single factor (e.g., Arditte et al, 2016). The shared variance in these models reliably accounts for the preponderance of PT-related variance in non-PT symptoms.…”