Objective“Not just right experiences” (NJREs) represent a mismatch between a perceived current versus desired state of experiences. NJREs are currently considered specific to obsessive‐compulsive symptoms, but results from prior studies might have been affected by the assessment of NJREs that were particularly relevant to only obsessive‐compulsive symptoms. Method A large community sample of adults recruited through the Internet (N = 480, Mean age = 32.9 years, 54.7% female) completed self‐report measures of symptom types and a modified self‐report measure of NJREs. Results Consistent with predictions, NJREs tended to share statistically equivalent zero‐order correlations with all of the assessed symptom types. NJREs were significantly related to only generalized anxiety and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms after accounting for important covariates, including general distress, perfection/certainty, and the overlap among the symptom types. Conclusions These results suggest that NJREs are relevant to a broader range of symptom types than previously thought.