01695nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260001800042653002000060653001600080653001300096653001500109653002400124100002100148700002100169700002600190700002300216245013600239856006600375300001000441490000700451520098100458022001401439       2017                            d  cnovbElsevier10aThought control10aTrait worry10aBrooding10aReflection10aCognitive avoidance1 aManuel González1 aGustavo Ramírez1 aMaría del Mar Brajin1 aConstanza Londoño00aControl, avoidance and emotion regulation cognitive strategies: the differential role in negative and intrusive repetitive thoughts  uhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1134793717300258  a84-900 v233 aIn this research, we present the relationships of a broad range of cognitive and emotional avoidance strategies, such as reappraisal, punishment, and social control with some repetitive negative thoughts such as trait worry, brooding, reflection, and other intrusive thoughts such as those associated with obsessions and compulsions and post-traumatic stress. The participants were 267 individuals from the general population, of whom 62.6% were women and 37.4% men. The results indicate that the most transdiagnostic strategies for repetitive negative and intrusive thoughts are worrying, avoidance of threatening stimuli, rumination, and catastrophism. Reappraisal and focusing on planning are predictors of reflection, while focusing on planning is also common to intrusive thoughts. Results are discussed from the theories of cognitive avoidance and emotion regulation and their possible integration into the experiential avoidance disorder of the relational frame theory.  a1134-7937