Repetitive negative thinking in the perinatal period and its relationship with anxiety and depression

From Information to Worry: How Selective Interrogation of Information Shapes Expectancies in the Prenatal Period

“…We used the 16-item Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS) to index worry during pregnancy (Moulds et al, 2022). Participants are asked to rate the degree to which various pregnancy-specific issues such as coping with the new baby, their own health, money problems etc, is a source of worry for them.…”

“…However, there is very limited evidence supporting the association between negative expectancies about parenthood and prenatal worry. Given the established detrimental consequences of prenatal worry (Moulds et al, 2022), it is important to determine whether this relationship is robust. Therefore, the first aim of the current study was to determine whether there is an association between negative expectancies about parenthood and elevated levels of prenatal worry.…”

Imagine before you leap: Episodic future thinking combined with transcranial direct current stimulation training for impulsive choice in repetitive negative thinking

“…Notably, repetitive negative thinking (RNT) has been identified as a transdiagnostic and predictive cognition process, which refers to perseverative and verbal thinking about self-relevant distress ( Hijne et al, 2020 ). RNT contributes not only to the development and maintenance of major depression disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder ( Moulds et al, 2022 ; Raines et al, 2017 ), but rather to myriad co-occurring psychiatric disorders ( Hartley et al, 2014 ). Building from growing literature associated with impulsive choice, RNT may represent an underlying cause for immediate rewards over long-term benefits ( Elliott et al, 2023 ; Llera & Newman, 2020 ).…”