Worry and Rumination: Repetitive Thought as a Concomitant and Predictor of Negative Mood

By S. Segerstrom, J. Tsao, L. Alden, Michelle G. Craske. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2000

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A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: Effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distraction (2007, background): “Current research also suggests that rumination relates to anxiety as well as other forms of negative affect ( 21 ).”
The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health. (2006, background): “A common feature in these processes, and others, such as obsessions and (appetitive) craving, has been described as brepetitive thought Q, emphasizing the recurring nature of these processes [8].”
Effects of neuroticism on depression and anxiety: Rumination as a possible mediator (2008, background): “Interestingly, recent research has shown that a ruminative response style might not only be characteristic for depression but is also related to anxiety (e.g., Fresco, Frankel, Mennin, Turk, & Heimberg, 2002; Muris, Roelofs, Meesters, & Boomsma, 2004; Segerstrom et al., 2000).”
Rumination Reconsidered: A Psychometric Analysis (2003, methodology): “Next, we removed 12 items from the RRS that we deemed similar to BDI items (see Table I), leaving 10 candidate rumination items (Items 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, and 21; see Segerstrom et al., 2000, for a nearly identical removal of RRS items similar to BDI items).”