the thought pattern

In this study, the author examined the pattern of the thought that a person of catastrophic thought remembered in each scene. The author took inventory survey for 119 university students and made a negative thought standard comprised of three factors, ruminative worry, worry caused by the interpersonal relation, and worry related to social phenomenon. By the cluster analysis using this standard they were classified into four groups, self-consciousness thought group, optimistic thought group, generally negative thought group and adoptive thought group. To consider their thought pattern in the daily situations, the author set two social scenes, one is a part-time job scene and the other is a family scene. For each scene the author set six thought patterns, the positive thought pattern, the pattern of trying to solve the problem, the pattern indicating one's uneasiness, the catastrophic thought pattern and abandonment thought pattern. They were told to choose one of the six thought patterns to which they think their one is closest. It was examined which thought pattern the group of the generally negative thought choose. The result was that the group of generally negative thought does not always take catastrophic thought in the social scene.