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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Ther. 2019 Jul 17;51(3):413–423. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2019.07.003

Table 1.

Worry outcome incidence and WOJ ratings across entries of the first two days of monitoring

M
(SD)
Min. – Max.
Overall percent of worries that did not come true 91.30% --
Percent of true worriesa with outcome better than expected 30.10% --
Percent of true worriesa with outcome as bad as expected 44.15% --
Percent of true worriesa with outcome worse than expected 25.80% --
Average number of unique worries per person 34.30 (18.00) 12.50 - 100.50
Early worry-related distressb 4.51 (1.49) 3.13 – 6.75
Early recent cognitive interference durationc 43.12% (26.08) 18.75% - 75.14%
Early daily cognitive interference durationd 25.88% (22.57) 1.25% - 67.86%
Early emotional likelihood of worry outcome 62.09% (26.08) 25.00% - 85.71%
Early logical likelihood of worry outcome 41.67% (22.97) 7.50% - 82.86%
a

Percentage of worries that were perceived as having come true by participants during monitoring.

b

Average degree of self-reported distress associated with individual worries on a scale from 1 (no distress) to 7 (severe distress).

c

Percentage of time spent on thought in past two hours.

d

Percentage of time spent on thought across entire day.