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

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Stöber, Joachim, Bittencourt, Jussara·1998·Behaviour Research and Therapy

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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 Week (PSWQ-PW) was highly reliable and substantially valid in the assessment of both (a) weekly status of worry and (b) treatment-related changes in worry: average Cronbach's alpha was 0.91; average convergent correlation with a past-week adaptation of the Worry Domains Questionnaire [Tallis, F., Eysenck, M. W. and Mathews, A. (1992). A questionnaire for the measurement of nonpathological worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 161-168.] was 0.63 and pre-post improvement on PSWQ-PW showed a 0.71 correlation with the Questionnaire of Changes in Experiencing and Behavior [Zielke, M. and Kopf-Mehnert, C. (1978). Veränderungsfragebogen des Erlebens und Verhaltens. Weinheim, Germany: Beltz Test Gesellschaft.]. It is concluded that the PSWQ-PW is a useful instrument for monitoring pathological worry in experimental and applied settings.

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  1. American Psychiatric Association (Ed.). (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: Fourth edition. Washington, DC: Author. Weekly Assessment of Worry 12
  2. Bittencourt, J. (1996). Kurzzeitintervention zur Besorgnisreduzierung bei Hochbesorgten: Studie zur Evaluation einer Methode der kognitiven Umstrukturierung [Brief intervention for worry reduction in high-worriers: Evaluation of a cognitive- restructuring method]. Unpublished master's thesis, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

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Authors
Stöber, J., & Bittencourt, J.
Affiliations
Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Corresponding author
Stöber, Joachim
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1998-06
Volume
36
Issue
6
Pages
645-656
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2003107068
Cited by
162
References
25
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1.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Universität Greifswald
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords
Penn State Worry Questionnaire, pathological worry, treatment monitoring, cognitive restructuring, questionnaire adaptation, reliability and validity
MeSH terms
Adult, Anxiety, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Reproducibility of Results, Outcome Assessment, Health Care

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