Repetitive negative thinking and emotion regulation difficulties as transdiagnostic processes across three mental disorders: An examination of two constructs and their interconnections
Background and objectives: The transdiagnostic approach states that mental disorders share common psychopathological processes which are expressed in disorder-specific ways. The first purpose of this thesis was to examine the transdiagnostic validity of repetitive negative thinking (RNT) and emotion regulation (ER) difficulties across major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (
