The recommended treatment for Social Phobia is individual Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT-treatments emphasize social self-beliefs (schemas) as the core underlying factor for maladaptive self-processing and social anxiety symptoms. However, the need for such beliefs in models of psychopathology has recently been questioned. Specifically, the metacognitive model of psychological disorde...

The present study examined the effect of grouped meta-cognitive therapy on meta-cognitive beliefs of patients' suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. This research is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group in which two groups of experiment and control are used. The present study population includes all state universities, Islamic Azad Universities of Ta...

OBJECTIVE The current study examined whether cognitive reactivity, cognitive extremity reactivity, and mood reactivity following mood provocation predicted relapse in depression over 5.5 years. Additionally, this study was the 1st to examine whether changes in cognitive reactivity and mood reactivity following preventive cognitive therapy (PCT) mediated the preventive effect of PCT on relapse. ...

The present study examined to examine whether improvement of insomnia is mediated by a reduction in sleep-related dysfunctional beliefs through cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. In total, 64 patients with chronic insomnia received cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia consisting of 6 biweekly individual treatment sessions of 50 minutes in length. Participants were asked to complete...

Background: Obsessive patients are distressed by intrusive thoughts, which are related to unreal threats. These patients feel that they are responsible for harming themselves and others. While controlling worry and meta-cognitive beliefs, the present study aimed at comparing the responsibility attitudes in obsessive compulsive patients with those in normal subjects to determine whether the diff...

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...

Models predicting technology acceptance (TAM, TTF) rely on task-doers’ cognitive beliefs (along with other beliefs) about the technology and the fit between technology and task to predict technology use. Although these cognitive beliefs are theorized as depending on the interactions of technology, task, and individual characteristics, these interaction effects are understudied. This paper attem...

Predicting Student Performance in Verbal Math Problems Based on Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Affective Factors F. Karimi, Ph.D. A.R. Moraadi, Ph.D. P. Kadivar, Ph.D. R. Kormi Noori, Ph.D. To determine the predictive role of metacognitive, cognitive, and affective factors in solving verbal math problems, a cluster sample of 450 junior high school  students was given ...