Repetitive Thinking in Social Anxiety Disorder: Are Anticipatory Processing and Post-Event Processing Facets of an Underlying Unidimensional Construct?

Wong, Quincy J. J.; McEvoy, Peter M.; Rapee, Ronald M.

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“…1 RNT is longlasting and recurring thoughts about one's self, worries, and experiences that commonly occur in the m i n d s o f a l l i n d i v i d u a l s 2 a n d a r e i nvo l ve d i n development and persistence of mood and anxiety disorders. 3 Evidence suggests that, as a subset of negative thoughts, rumination and worry have a relationship with vulnerability to various emotional disorders such as depression, 4,5 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 6 social anxiety disorder (SAD), 7,8 and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). 5,9 RNT appears to exacerbate and prolong emotional disorders through a mechanism of maintaining attention to negative cognition and emotional contexts.…”

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Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire: Persian versions of the RTQ-31 and RTQ-10

Hasani

Ahmadi

Saed

2021

Trends Psychiatry Psychother

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Introduction:Repetitive thinking as a transdiagnostic factor plays an essential role in the development and maintenance of emotional disorders. Two versions of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire (RTQ-31 and RTQ-10) are the best-known measures used for assessing repetitive thinking in clinical and nonclinical samples. The present study was conducted to evaluate the psychometric properties and factor structure of Persian versions of them. Methods: Participants were 592 students assessed with the RTQ-31, the RTQ-10, the Ruminative Response Scale, the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory-second edition, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, and the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale-21. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine construct validity. Results: The findings showed that the RTQ-31 and the RTQ-10 demonstrated excellent internal consistency and good test-retest reliability (α = 0.946: r = 0.844) and (α = 0.903: r = 0.776) respectively. Also, five items from the original version were omitted due to inadequate factor loadings. This study showed that the resulting 26-item version has a two-factor structure, while the short version has a one-dimensional structure. Finally, it was found that repetitive thinking has a positive and powerful relationship with other measures of rumination and with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. Conclusion: Persian versions of the RTQ have good factor structures and psychometric properties and can be used in clinical populations and related studies.

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Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire: Persian versions of the RTQ-31 and RTQ-10

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Ahmadi

Saed

2021

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“…Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) emphasize anticipatory processing as a prominent maintaining factor occurring before social-evaluative events [53]. In addition, as suggested by Wong, McEvoy [54], anticipatory processing reflected by General Repetitive Thinking factor had moderately large associations with social anxiety and life interference. Considering the aforementioned information, it could be suggested that what increased these symptoms could be the anticipation, but no the fact of losing it.…”

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Does living close to petrochemical complex increase the adverse psychological effects of COVID-19 lockdown?

Vicens

Heredia

Pérez

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The petrochemical industry has made possible the economic development of many local communities, increasing the employment opportunities and generating a complex network of secondary industries closely related to those. However, it is known that petrochemical industries emit air pollutants, which are related to different negative effects on mental health. In addition, many people around the world are being exposed to highly stressful situations derived from the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown adopted by the national and regional governments. The present study was aimed at analysing the possible differential effects on different psychological outcomes (stress, anxiety, depression and emotional regulation strategies) derived from the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown in individuals living near an important petrochemical complex and subjects living in other areas, non-exposed to the characteristic environmental pollutants emitted by this kind of complexes. The sample was composed by 1607 subjects which respond a questionnaire developed ad hoc about the confinement conditions, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS) and the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The results indicated that people living closer to petrochemical complexes reported greater risk perception. However, no significant relationships between psychological variables and proximity to the focus were detected when compared people living near to or far away from a chemical/petrochemical complex. Regarding the adverse psychological effects of the first lockdown due to COVID-19 on the general population in Catalonia, we can conclude that the lockdown conditions included in this survey were mainly related to changes in the impulsivity levels of participants. However, we can also suggest that the economic effects are going to be harder than those initially detected in this study. More studies are necessary to corroborate our results.Author ContributionsConceptualization: Paloma Vicens, Luis Heredia, José L. Domingo, Margarita TorrenteFunding Acquisition: José L. DomingoData Curation and Formal Analysis: Paloma Vicens, Luis Heredia, Edgar Bustamante, Yolanda Pérez, Margarita TorrenteMethodology: Paloma Vicens, Luis Heredia, Margarita TorrenteWriting-original draft: Paloma Vicens, Luis HerediaWriting- review and editing: Paloma Vicens, Luis Heredia, Yolanda Pérez, José L. Domingo, Margarita Torrente

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“…Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) emphasize anticipatory processing as a prominent maintaining factor occurring before social-evaluative events [58]. In addition, as suggested by Wong, McEvoy [59], anticipatory processing reflected by a general repetitive thinking factor had moderately large associations with social anxiety and life interference. Considering all the above, it could be suggested that what increased these symptoms might be worrying about losing one's job, but not the fact of actually losing it.…”

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Does living close to a petrochemical complex increase the adverse psychological effects of the COVID-19 lockdown?

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The petrochemical industry has made the economic development of many local communities possible, increasing employment opportunities and generating a complex network of closely-related secondary industries. However, it is known that petrochemical industries emit air pollutants, which have been related to different negative effects on mental health. In addition, many people around the world are being exposed to highly stressful situations deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns adopted by national and regional governments. The present study aims to analyse the possible differential effects on various psychological outcomes (stress, anxiety, depression and emotional regulation strategies) stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown experienced by individuals living near an important petrochemical complex and subjects living in other areas, nonexposed to the characteristic environmental pollutants emitted by these kinds of complex. The sample consisted of 1607 subjects who answered an ad hoc questionnaire on lockdown conditions, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS) and the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The results indicate that people living closer to petrochemical complexes reported greater risk perception [K = 73.42, p < 0.001, with a medium size effect (η2 = 0.061)]. However, no significant relationship between psychological variables and proximity to the focus was detected when comparing people living near to or far away from a chemical/petrochemical complex. Regarding the adverse psychological effects of the first lockdown due to COVID-19 on the general population in Catalonia, we can conclude that the conditions included in this survey were mainly related to changes in the participants’ impulsivity levels, with different total impulsivity scores being obtained if they had minors in their care (p<0.001), if they had lost their jobs, if they were working (p<0.001), if they were not telecommuting (p<0.001), if they went out to work (p<0.001) or if they established routines (p = 0.009). However, we can also be fairly certain that the economic effects are going to be worse than those initially detected in this study. More research will be necessary to corroborate our results.

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Repetitive Thinking in Social Anxiety Disorder: Are Anticipatory Processing and Post-Event Processing Facets of an Underlying Unidimensional Construct?

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire: Persian versions of the RTQ-31 and RTQ-10

Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire: Persian versions of the RTQ-31 and RTQ-10

Does living close to petrochemical complex increase the adverse psychological effects of COVID-19 lockdown?

Does living close to a petrochemical complex increase the adverse psychological effects of the COVID-19 lockdown?

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