• Varsha Gautam
• Dr. Archana Satsangi

Abstract Excessive load and changes in teaching style leads to sudden and repetitive thoughts, these thoughts may sometime have observed to be irrelevant to the situation but high frequency of them may harm the mental health and quality of life. So, assessing them and finding their contributing factors is need of hour. Self- blame is tendency of people to think that they are responsible to the negative happened in their and other’s life. Rumination means holding thoughts for longer duration. People tend to process same thought again and again which may affect their mental health. Tendency of perceiving situation worse than it is in actual is known as catastrophizing. The present study was conducted with the aim to find the relative contribution of self- blame, rumination and catastrophizing in determining automatic negative thoughts. A sample of 99 teachers (50 males+ 49 females) was conveniently selected from various schools of Agra and Mathura. Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire by Garnefski, Kraaij, &Spinhoven (2001) and Automatic Thoughts Scale (ATS) It was developed by Hollon and Kendall (1980) were used to get the scores. Multiple regression analysis was done to assess the results and it was found that Relative contribution of Catastrophizing was higher than Self-blame and Rumination in determining negative automatic thoughts.

Key words: Automatic Negative Thoughts, Self-blame, Rumination and Catastrophizing,

"Self-blame, Rumination and Catastrophizing as predicting factors in determining Automatic Negative Thoughts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.f667-f673, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107707.pdf

"Self-blame, Rumination and Catastrophizing as predicting factors in determining Automatic Negative Thoughts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppf667-f673, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107707.pdf