introduction: the aim of the present study was to investigate the role of metacognitive beliefs in depression by the mediating role of rumination. method: the present study was conducted with a correlational method. therefore, 275 students of the university of tabriz were selected using a stratified sampling method. beck’s depression inventory, wells’ metacognitive questionnaire and treynor’s r...

AIM This study focuses on the relationship between dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs, depression, anxiety and self-esteem and hallucinatory-like experiences among healthy subjects. METHODS 198 participants (149 women), mostly recruited from universities, took part in the study. Hallucinatory-like experiences were assessed with the Polish version of the Revised Hallucinations Scale (RHS). B...

background and purpose: causal relationships between coping strategies, metacognitive beliefs and test anxiety, according to the self-regulatory executive function model of wells and matthews (1999) in college students was evaluated. material and methods: 638 students of tarbiat moallem university of tehran and agriculturalogy faculty were participated from aban to azar 2010 by quota sampling m...

The Panic Belief Inventory (PBI) was developed to assess beliefs that increase the likelihood of catastrophic reactions to physical and emotional experiences in panic disorder. In the first stage of scale development, 197 panic disorder patients completed the PBI and standard self-report inventories of psychiatric symptomatology. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a 4-factor solution from w...

In the coherentist approach to belief change, all beliefs are assumed to be ordered according to their epistemic entrenchment. On the other hand, in the foundational approach to belief change, which explicitly distinguishes “basic” beliefs from “inferred” beliefs, basic beliefs are ordered according to their retractability. Both entrenchment and retractability are distinct tie-breaking mechanis...

Introduction: Research has shown that adults who stutter have reacted with increased skin conductance and lower heart rates when confronted videos of severe stuttering compared to fluent speech. It not been clearly established how these physiological indices or autonomic arousals are related attitudes. The current study sought compare psychometric measures anxiety attitudes.Method: In a multipl...

This study investigated whether and how university students’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge i.e., epistemological beliefs affected L2 academic reading ability directly and/or indirectly via self-regulated learning strategies. EFL college students (n =196) answered the reading section of a TOEFL test, two parts of Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and Epistemological Beliefs...