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The Recently developed Catastrophic Cognition Questionnaire (CCQ) was further investigated using both student and anxiety patient samples. LISREL confirmatory factor analyses was used. The results showed that the CCQ could be explained by a three-factor oblique solution. These are Emotional Catastrophes, Physical Catastrophes, and Mental Catastrophes. The modified version of CCQ (CCQ-M) revealed good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity. It has also good discriminant validity. The CCQ-M can therefore be used with both normal and anxiety-disordered patients.
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We would like to thank the staff of the Anxiety Disorder clinic, in particular Dr. Larry Evans and Ms. Elly Staunton-McKenzie, for their assistance in data collection, and the subjects for their participation in this study. Dr. Khawaja was supported by a scholarship from the Government of Pakistan. She was on leave from the University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their excellent suggestions.
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Khawaja, N.G., Oei, T.P.S. & Baglioni, A.J. Modification of the catastrophic cognitions questionnaire (CCQ-M) for normals and patients: Exploratory and LISREL analyses. J Psychopathol Behav Assess 16, 325–342 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02239410
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