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Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL)

Jens Allaert (UGent) , Marie De Bruecker (UGent) , Filip Raes, Rudi De Raedt (UGent) , Laura Nagy and Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt (UGent)
(2025) EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT.
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Self-criticism and rumination are critically involved in affective disorders, with network approaches highlighting self-critical processes as central to rumination. The Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS) assesses self-critical rumination, a repetitive negative thinking pattern that devalues the self, and has demonstrated good psychometric properties. This study aimed to validate a Dutch version of the SCRS (SCRS-NL) in a Belgian sample (N = 466). Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the one-factor structure of the original SCRS, and the SCRS-NL demonstrated internal consistency comparable to the original scale. The SCRS-NL showed moderate to large correlations with scales measuring related constructs (e.g., repetitive negative thinking, self-evaluative attitudes, fear of failure, perfectionism, symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress). Moreover, the SCRS-NL exhibited incremental validity over established rumination measures (ruminative response scale and perseverative thinking questionnaire) in predicting symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. Finally, multi-group confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated measurement and scalar invariance between the SCRS-NL and the original English SCRS, confirming the SCRS-NL's cross-cultural applicability and validity in assessing self-critical rumination.
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self-criticism, rumination, repetitive negative thinking, psychometrics, depression, anxiety, stress, REPETITIVE NEGATIVE THINKING, STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS, FIT INDEXES, MENTAL-DISORDERS, ESTEEM, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, SYMPTOMS, METAANALYSIS, DIMENSIONS

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Allaert, Jens, et al. “Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL).” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, 2025, doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000889.
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Allaert, J., De Bruecker, M., Raes, F., De Raedt, R., Nagy, L., & Vanderhasselt, M.-A. (2025). Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL). EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000889
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Allaert, Jens, Marie De Bruecker, Filip Raes, Rudi De Raedt, Laura Nagy, and Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt. 2025. “Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL).” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000889.
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Allaert, Jens, Marie De Bruecker, Filip Raes, Rudi De Raedt, Laura Nagy, and Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt. 2025. “Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL).” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000889.
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Allaert J, De Bruecker M, Raes F, De Raedt R, Nagy L, Vanderhasselt M-A. Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL). EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. 2025;
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J. Allaert, M. De Bruecker, F. Raes, R. De Raedt, L. Nagy, and M.-A. Vanderhasselt, “Validation of the Dutch Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS-NL),” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, 2025.
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