With two cohorts, elderly persons who were retired and older persons who were not retired, amount of worry as assessed by Wisocki's broadly designed Worry Scale Revised (WSR) and the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) was significantly greater for the pre-retirement group. Women were found to worry more than men on both the WSR and the PSWQ. Significant correlations between WSR and Worry Diary, PSWQ, and SCL-90-R (anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsiveness) scores strengthened claims for the WSR as a valid measure of worry in older/elderly persons.
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