title: Are "not just right experiences" (NJREs) specific to obsessive-compulsive symptoms?: evidence that NJREs span across symptoms of emotional disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  "Not just right experiences" (NJREs) represent a mismatch between a perceived current versus desired state of experiences. NJREs are currently considered specific to obsessive-compulsive symptoms, but results from prior studies might have been affected by the assessment of NJREs that were particularly relevant to only obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  A large community sample of adults recruited through the Internet (N = 480, Mean age = 32.9 years, 54.7% female) completed self-report measures of symptom types and a modified self-report measure of NJREs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Consistent with predictions, NJREs tended to share statistically equivalent zero-order correlations with all of the assessed symptom types. NJREs were significantly related to only generalized anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms after accounting for important covariates, including general distress, perfection/certainty, and the overlap among the symptom types.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest that NJREs are relevant to a broader range of symptom types than previously thought.
authors.affiliation: Baylor University.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Fergus
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: emotional disorders; generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); worry; “not just right experience” (NJRE)