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Co-rumination is characterized by rehashing the problem or parts of the problem, speculating about the causes and consequences of the problem, focusing on negative affect that results from the problem, and mutual encouragement of problem talk. Co-rumination has been shown to be more common and impactful in female friendships’ as compared to males’. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Co-rumination questionnaire in women. In a correlational design, 119 women who referred to health care centers of Mashhad city were selected with the convenience sampling. Data were collected by Co-rumination Questionnaire (CRQ), and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21). Confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity and internal compatibility with SPSS.25 and SmartPLS.3.3.0 software were evaluated. The results showed that the questionnaire has three factors. This structure has a good fit. Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from 0.86 to 0.95 and Spearman-Brown’s split-half coefficients ranged from 0.90 to 0.95, indicating good reliability of the questionnaire. Co-rumination had a positive and significant relationship with depression and could predict it. It seems that the Co-rumination Questionnaire has proper validity and reliability and can be used by researchers to predict depression in women.

Co-rumination refers to excessively frequent discussing personal problems within dyadic relationship. The purpose of present study was to investigate the validity and reliability assessment of the Persian version of the Co-rumination questionnaire.

In a correlational design, 167 adults who were referred to health care centers in Mashhad were selected with multistage cluster sampling. Data were collected by a Co-rumination Questionnaire, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21), and Rumination Response Scale (RRS). Exploratory factor analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate analysis of variance were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that the scale had three factors of rehashing, encouraging problem talk and mulling which explains 66.01% of the variance. Co-rumination had a positive and significant relationship with stress, anxiety, depression and rumination (p < 0.01). Age had no significant relationship with Co-rumination. But differences were significant based on gender, and women had higher mean.

It seems that the Persian version of the Co-rumination Questionnaire has a proper validity and reliability in common population and can be used in related research.