PMID- 27608134 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180222 LR - 20191210 IS - 1477-2205 (Electronic) IS - 1061-5806 (Linking) VI - 30 IP - 2 DP - 2017 Mar TI - Development and validation of the trait and state versions of the Post-Event Processing Inventory. PG - 202-218 LID - 10.1080/10615806.2016.1230668 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Post-event processing (PEP) refers to negative and prolonged rumination following anxiety-provoking social situations. Although there are scales to assess PEP, they are situation-specific, some targeting only public-speaking situations. Furthermore, there are no trait measures to assess the tendency to engage in PEP. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this research was to create a new measure of PEP, the Post-Event Processing Inventory (PEPI), which can be employed following all types of social situations and includes both trait and state forms. DESIGN AND METHOD: Over two studies (study 1, N = 220; study 2, N = 199), we explored and confirmed the factor structure of the scale with student samples. RESULTS: For each form of the scale, we found and confirmed that a higher-order, general PEP factor could be inferred from three sub-domains (intensity, frequency, and self-judgment). We also found preliminary evidence for the convergent, concurrent, discriminant/divergent, incremental, and predictive validity for each version of the scale. Both forms of the scale demonstrated excellent internal consistency and the trait form had excellent two-week test-retest reliability. CONCLUSION: Given the utility and versatility of the scale, the PEPI may provide a useful alternative to existing measures of PEP and rumination. FAU - Blackie, Rebecca A AU - Blackie RA AD - a Department of Psychology , Wilfrid Laurier University , Waterloo , Canada. FAU - Kocovski, Nancy L AU - Kocovski NL AD - a Department of Psychology , Wilfrid Laurier University , Waterloo , Canada. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Validation Study DEP - 20160919 PL - England TA - Anxiety Stress Coping JT - Anxiety, stress, and coping JID - 9212242 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Anxiety/*diagnosis/*psychology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Psychometrics MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - *Rumination, Cognitive MH - Students/psychology/statistics & numerical data MH - Surveys and Questionnaires MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - Post-event processing OT - assessment OT - psychometrics OT - rumination OT - social anxiety OT - social phobia EDAT- 2016/09/09 06:00 MHDA- 2018/02/23 06:00 CRDT- 2016/09/09 06:00 PHST- 2016/09/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/02/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/09/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/10615806.2016.1230668 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anxiety Stress Coping. 2017 Mar;30(2):202-218. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2016.1230668. Epub 2016 Sep 19.