Non-Productive Thoughts Questionnaire

How did you feel lately??
1.    I am often worried.
2.    When I have a problem‚ I often think “why me?”
3.    It is difficult to forget bad things.
4.    Problems never worry me. I just solve them.
5.    When I have a problem‚ I can’t stop thinking about it.
6.    When I make a mistake‚ I am worried about what might happen.
7.    When I have a problem‚ I think about it all the time.
8.    When I try to deal with a problem‚ I am worried that I will only make things worse.
9.    When I have a problem‚ I often think about how bad it is.
10.When I don’t know exactly what is happening‚ I usually think that bad things will happen.
 
1 = not true‚ 2 = sometimes true‚ 3 = often true
 

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Rieffe‚ C.‚ Meerum Terwogt‚ M.‚ Petrides‚ K.V.‚ Cowan‚ C.‚ Miers‚ A.C.‚ Tolland‚ A. (2007). Psychometric properties of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire for children. Personality and Individual Differences‚ 43‚ 95-105

Miers‚ A.C.‚ Rieffe‚ C.‚ Meerum Terwogt‚ M.‚ Cowan‚ R. & Linden‚ W. (2007). The relation between anger coping strategies‚ anger mood and somatic complaints in children and adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology‚ 35‚ 653-664. For validation of the questionnaire in Farsi:

Rieffe‚ C.‚ Oosterveld‚ P.‚ Meerum Terwogt‚ M.‚ Novin‚ S.‚ Nasiri‚ H.‚ & Latifian‚ M. (2010). Relationship between alexithymia‚ mood and internalizing symptoms in children and young adolescents: Evidence from an Iranian sample. Personality and Individual Differences‚ 48‚ 425-430.

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