The Cognitive Attentional Syndrome Scale 1 Revised (CAS-1R) is a 10-item self-report measure designed to assess dysfunctional metacognition, transdiagnostic predictor of psychological disorders (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder). Dysfunctional metacognition classified into “cognitive attentional syndrome” and “metacognitive beliefs,” the latter in turn negative posi...

objective: the objective of this study was analyzing the effect of meta-cognition elements on depression, trait and state anxiety symptoms.  methods: in this study, the sample consisted of 224 students of university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences that answered three questionnaires including metacognitive questionnaire (mcq-30), beck depression inventory (bdi-ii) and spielberger s...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the contribution of improvement in negative emotional cognitions, active cognitive coping, and control and chronicity beliefs to the outcome of multidisciplinary treatment in patients with chronic widespread pain. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. PATIENTS A total of 120 subjects diagnosed with chronic widespread pain, who completed a multidisciplinary pain programme. ...

Cognitive psychological research focuses on causal learning and reasoning while cognitive anthropological and social science research tend to focus on systems of beliefs. Our aim was to explore how these two types of research can inform each other. Cognitive psychological theories (causal model theory and causal Bayes nets) were used to derive predictions for systems of causal beliefs. These pr...

cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) posit that specific kinds of dysfunctional beliefs underlie the development of this disorder. the aim of present study was to determine whether these beliefs are endorsed more strongly by ocd patients than by those with other anxiety disorders and by community samples. a battery of questionnaires, including the obq-44, moci, bdi-ii, bai, s...

New evidence from cognitive development suggests that action selection is contingent not only on one’s own mental states (e.g. beliefs, etc.), but may also be affected by one’s representation of the beliefs of others (Kovacs et al. 2010). Herein, I propose a preliminary computational model accounting for the general pattern of results in the recent study by Kovacs et al. that is broadly simulat...

Worry is considered as one of the shared cognitive components in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The study of cognitive factors influencing worry simultaneously has important implications for psychopathology. These factors have been discussed separately in different theoretical models. The aim of the present study was to investigate the simple and mul...

Much of the recent neuropsychological literature on false beliefs (delusions) has tended to focus on individual or single beliefs, with few studies actually investigating the relationship or co-occurrence between different types of co-existing beliefs. Quine and Ullian proposed the hypothesis that our beliefs form an interconnected web in which the beliefs that make up that system must somehow ...

On the basis of postulates derived from cognitive-behavioral theory, research and therapy, the authors explored the extent to which older adults' cognitive beliefs of a just world and their perspectives on future time and similarity or self-continuity with the future self are predictors of long-term survival. After baseline assessment of health and cognitive beliefs and future perspectives of t...