Worry in pre- and post-retirement persons

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