Table 1.
Standardized Factor Loadings of Perseverative Cognitions Questionnaire (PCQ) Items.
| PCQ scales |
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| Item no. | PCQ item | LC | PF | EW | SC | DP | DT |
| 44 | It’s hard for me to let a thought go once it enters my head | .86 | |||||
| 30 | I find it difficult to dismiss a thought once it has entered my head | .80 | |||||
| 3 | I am consumed by certain thoughts | .80 | |||||
| 16 | I am surprised by how little control I have over certain thoughts | .70 | |||||
| 37 | It’s difficult for me to get things done when my mind starts to race | .67 | |||||
| 8 | I repeatedly think about things to reduce the risk of danger | .87 | |||||
| 36 | I repeatedly think about a task to avoid any problems that may arise | .86 | |||||
| 26 | I repeatedly think about a problem ahead of time to prevent misfortune from occurring | .85 | |||||
| 9 | I repeatedly think about things so I can be prepared in case something bad happens | .83 | |||||
| 24 | I repeatedly think about things to figure out how to avoid or prevent bad things from happening | .83 | |||||
| 41 | I repeatedly think about a current problem in order to avoid it | .73 | |||||
| 18 | I explore all possible outcomes in my head in an effort to solve a problem | .67 | |||||
| 27 | I usually find it likely that things will turn out poorly | .89 | |||||
| 21 | I usually expect the worst in ambiguous situations | .86 | |||||
| 43 | I typically expect the worst to happen | .86 | |||||
| 17 | I believe good things are not likely to happen to me | .67 | |||||
| 6 | I become absorbed in trying to understand my thoughts, feelings, and actions | .86 | |||||
| 34 | I repeatedly think about my feelings to discover if they have some deeper meaning | .83 | |||||
| 40 | I repeatedly think about my thoughts, feelings, and actions to better understand myself | .82 | |||||
| 12 | I often think about my moods to figure out why I feel the way I feel | .73 | |||||
| 23 | I repeatedly think about things that are over and done with | .86 | |||||
| 42 | I frequently focus my attention on things that I can no longer do anything about | .85 | |||||
| 20 | I repeatedly play back past events in my mind | .85 | |||||
| 19 | I repeatedly question the things I have done | .84 | |||||
| 33 | I tend to replay in my mind how I acted in a past situation | .82 | |||||
| 38 | I often turn my mind to events in my past that I should no longer be concerned about | .82 | |||||
| 32 | Things that have happened to me unwillingly linger in my mind | .82 | |||||
| 35 | After a problem has long been resolved, my thoughts drift back to what happened | .82 | |||||
| 7 | I cannot help but rehash past events in my mind | .81 | |||||
| 1 | After I do something I cannot stop wondering if I made a mistake | .79 | |||||
| 13 | I often find myself repeatedly thinking about recent events, wishing they had gone | .78 | |||||
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| 31 | I cannot get thoughts about recent occurrences out of my head | .77 | |||||
| 2 | Situations that have happened often drift back into my mind | .76 | |||||
| 22 | My attention is always focused on how I acted in past situations | .73 | |||||
| 25 | My thoughts are shameful | .84 | |||||
| 11 | It is sometimes as if my thoughts are not my own | .84 | |||||
| 45 | I am a terrible person for having weird or gross thoughts | .83 | |||||
| 5 | I am a bad person for thinking the way I do | .83 | |||||
| 39 | I am losing control when I have bad thoughts | .79 | |||||
| 15 | My thoughts make me uncomfortable | .78 | |||||
| 28 | I believe that having a bad thought is the same as committing a bad act | .76 | |||||
| 4 | I feel appalled by some of my thoughts | .75 | |||||
| 14 | I am afraid of having inappropriate thoughts | .75 | |||||
| 10 | I can cause bad things to happen if I think about them happening | .71 | |||||
| 29 | Some of my thoughts leave me frozen in place | .70 | |||||
Note. N = 463. LC = Lack of Controllability; PF = Preparing for the Future; EW = Expecting the Worst; SC = Searching for Causes/Meaning; DP = Dwelling on the Past; DT = Thinking Discordant with Ideal Self.