The Dunn Worry Questionnaire and the Paranoia Worries Questionnaire: new assessments of worry

Factor mixture modeling of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire: Evidence for distinct classes of worry.

Worry, the anticipation of future threat, is a common feature of anxiety and mood psychopathology. Considerable research has examined the latent structure of worry to determine whether this construct reflects a dimensional or taxonic structure. Recent taxometric investigations have provided support for a unidimensional structure of worry; however, the results of these studies are limited in tha...

Measuring Facets of Worry: A LISREL Analysis of the Worry Domains Questionnaire

Screening for Problematic Worry in Adults With a Single Item From the Penn State Worry Questionnaire.

As the rapid assessment of mental health is a growing need, a quick and valid tool for the early detection of symptoms that can be flexibly deployed across a range of contexts may be especially beneficial. This is particularly true of anxiety problems, which when undetected contribute to health care costs and lost work productivity. Data from more than 10,000 respondents (primarily female under...

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire.

Worry is often assessed with the 16-item Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ; Meyer, Miller, Metzger, & Borkovec, 1990. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495), but the factor structure of the PSWQ is not well articulated. Three factor analyses of the PSWQ have been conducted, with two (Brown, Antony, & Barlow, 1992. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 30, 33-37; van Rijsoort, Emmelkamp, & Ve...

Weekly assessment of worry: an adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for monitoring changes during treatment.

Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495.] for weekly assessment of worry was evaluated in a brief treatment study. Cognitive restructuring techniques were taught to 28 nonclinical high-worriers, 14 of whom served as a control group in a lagged waiting-list design. Results showed that the Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Past We...