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Evaluation of Catastrophizing and Clinical Application - A Standardization Study of Korean Anxious Thoughts and Tendencies Scale

Abstract

We developed Korean version of Anxious Thoughts and Tendencies scale(AT&T) to evaluate catastrophizing thoughts and took a standardization study. The normative group consisted of 1106 adults. The results showed that item-total correlation coefficient was .92 and test-retest reliability coefficient was .85. The AT&T scale was found to have theorectically assumed uni-factor structure and significant positive correlations with other depression and anxiety measures. The AT&T scale discriminated well between age, sex matched healthy normals and psychiatric patients but there were no significant differences among psychiatric patient group(major depressive disorder, somatoform disorder, panic disorder). From these results we can recognize that the AT&T scale represents well general cognitive vulnerability for anxious experience. Finally, we presented normative data of normal group and discussed the directions of future research.

keywords
재앙화 사고, 파국화, 불안취약 사고경향, 인지적 편향, catastrophizing, anxious thoughts and tendencies, cognitive bias

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