Stoeber, Joachim, Bittencourt, Jussara (1998) Weekly assessment of worry: an adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for monitoring changes during treatment. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36 (6). pp. 645-656. ISSN 0005-7967. (doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00031-X) (KAR id:19831)
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Abstract
An adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) [Meyer, T. J., Miller, M. L., Metzger, R. L. and Borkovec, T. D. (1990). 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.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00031-X |
Uncontrolled keywords: | anxiety neurosis; therapy outcome; change measurement; questionnaires; reliability; validity; worry |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Funders: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (https://ror.org/018mejw64) |
Depositing User: | Joachim Stoeber |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2009 10:29 UTC |
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2022 10:39 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/19831 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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