BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia exhibit higher levels of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs than healthy controls, but no studies have explored metacognitive beliefs in early psychosis. AIMS We examined i) differences in levels of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs between psychosis spectrum disorders, and healthy controls, and ii) to what extent demograph...

aim and background:  major depressive disorder (mdd) has physically and psychological effect on individuals with that disorder. one of the effective areas is emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs that has important role in interpersonal and between individual relationships. the purpose of this research was study of emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs in individuals...

Both worry and metacognitive beliefs have been found to be related to the development of anxiety, but metacognitive theory (Wells and Matthews, 1994; Wells, 2009) suggest that metacognitive beliefs may play a more prominent role. The aim of the present prospective study was to examine whether worry, metacognitive beliefs or the interaction between worry and metacognitive beliefs, were the best ...

objective: the aim of the current study is to investigate the relationship between metacognition and obsessive beliefs, and procrastination. methods: 285 students of tabriz and mohaghegh ardabili universities, iran, were selected by random sampling, and completed the metacognition (mcq-30) questionnaire, obsessive beliefs questionnaire (obq-44), and general procrastination scale. the research m...

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...

background and purpose: humans have a capacity to become aware of thoughts and behaviors known as metacognition. the metacognitive model of anxiety disorders emphasizes that metacognitive beliefs are key factors in obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression pathology. the purpose of this research was to compare metacognitive beliefs in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) and dep...

AIM Alcohol expectancies refer to the effects of alcohol use anticipated by an individual. Metacognitive beliefs about alcohol use are a specific form of alcohol expectancy relating to the beliefs individuals hold about the effects of alcohol on cognition and emotion. METHOD A community sample of 355 individuals completed measures of alcohol expectancies, metacognitive beliefs about alcohol u...

OBJECTIVES This study explores associations between metacognitive beliefs and beliefs about voices in patients with severe auditory verbal hallucinations, and their hypothesized relationship with levels of depression and anxiety. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that metacognitive beliefs are better able to explain differences in levels of depression and anxiety, than beliefs about voices. DE...

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...