Capturing worry in daily life: Are trait questionnaires sufficient?

Verkuil, Bart; Brosschot, Jos F.; Thayer, Julian F.

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2007.02.004

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Capturing worry in daily life: Are trait questionnaires sufficient?

Verkuil, Bart, Brosschot, Jos F., Thayer, Julian F.·2007·Behaviour Research and Therapy

DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2007.02.004

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Worry is crucial in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and has been associated with several other adverse health outcomes. Yet, little is known about the frequency and perseveration of worry in daily life, and its predictability by widely used trait questionnaires. In this study 432 students completed the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), the Worry Domains Questionnaire (WDQ) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait version (STAI-T) and kept a log of worry frequency and duration during six consecutive days and nights. The results showed that worry is a very common phenomenon that is predicted by the two trait worry questionnaires, independent of trait anxiety. The often clinically utilized PSWQ predicted worry duration better than the WDQ, and exclusively predicted night-time worry and several other indices of perseverative and potentially pathogenic worry. Although this study provides some support for the predictive validity of the PSWQ and the WDQ, these questionnaires did not account for the larger part of variance in daily worry. Future studies of worry and its associated perseverative processes should consider using momentary assessments.

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Authors: Verkuil, B., Brosschot, J. F., & Thayer, J. F.
Affiliations: Leiden University (NL)
The Ohio State University (US)
Corresponding author: Verkuil, Bart
ORCID: Verkuil, Bart
Brosschot, Jos F.
Thayer, Julian F.
Venue: Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2007-08
Volume: 45
Issue: 8
Pages: 1835-1844
ISSN: 0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.02.004
OpenAlex: W2000628628
Cited by: 92
References: 56
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
FWCI: 9.86
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
Keywords: worry, Penn State Worry Questionnaire, trait anxiety, anxiety disorders, momentary assessment
MeSH terms: Activities of Daily Living, Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Circadian Rhythm, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Time Factors, Reproducibility of Results

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