Repetitive Negative Thinking Shared across Rumination and Worry Predicts Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Emerging Adults

The current study used bifactor modeling to test how common repetitive negative thinking, rumination-specific, and worry-specific factors were associated with anhedonic depression and anxious arousal symptoms in a longitudinal emerging adult sample. The common RNT factor was correlated with, and a predictor of later, anhedonic depression and anxious arousal symptoms.