An increasing number of research studies have suggested that metacognition is associated with individuals' mental health. Specifically, metacognitive beliefs about rumination was proposed to link to the onset and maintenance of depression according to the metacognitive model of depression. The current study aimed to serve as a pilot study exploring how parents' metacognitive beliefs and parenti...

this study investigated how english as foreign language (efl) learners with different learning styles (field dependent and field independent) boost up their reading comprehension abilities as they develop their metacognitive skills. to conduct this research, 60 participants were randomly invited to sit pet (preliminary english test) to ensure homogeneity of the participants in terms of language...

BACKGROUND There is a need for qualitative research to help develop case conceptualisations to guide the development of Metacognitive Therapy interventions for Eating Disorders. METHOD A qualitative study informed by grounded theory methodology was conducted involving open-ended interviews with 27 women aged 18-55 years, who were seeking or receiving treatment for a diagnosed ED. RESULTS Th...

OBJECTIVE Emotional distress after a diagnosis of cancer is normal and, for most people, will diminish over time. However, a significant minority of patients with cancer experience persistent or recurrent symptoms of emotional distress for which they need help. A model developed in mental health, the self-regulatory executive function model (S-REF), specifies that maladaptive metacognitive beli...

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...

This study examined the effect of online metacognitive strategies, hypermedia annotations, and motivation on reading comprehension in a Taiwanese hypertext environment. A path analysis model was proposed based on the assumption that if English as a foreign language learners frequently use online metacognitive strategies and hypermedia annotations, then they would increase their learning motivat...