A brief scale of pathological worry that everyone already has

Abstract Worry is a central process in wide range of psychopathological and somatic conditions. Three studies ( N = 856) were used to test whether subscale composed five items the most commonly trait anxiety questionnaire, Spielberger’s State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait version (STAI-T), appropriate measure worry. Results showed that subscale, named Brief Scale (BWS), had excellent internal consistency temporal stability. Convergent divergent validity supported by correlation analyses using worry questionnaires measures anxious arousal depression. The BWS was particularly good predictor pathogenic aspects worry, including perseveration daily life (study 1), clinical 2) uncontrollability experimentally induced 3). Taken together, these demonstrate might be valuable scale for pathological which many researchers already have data.