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Metacognitive Beliefs (metacognitive + belief)

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Metacognitive beliefs increase vulnerability to rumination

APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2010
Michelle L. Moulds
Metacognitive beliefs about the benefits of rumination are associated with rumination and depression; however, the direction of these relationships remains unclear. Two experiments examined whether individuals with high positive beliefs about rumination engaged in more rumination following a laboratory-based stressor than individuals with low levels of such beliefs. In Study 1, participants with high levels of positive beliefs reported more rumination following receipt of negative feedback on a forced-failure anagram task. In Study 2, participants with high levels of positive beliefs reported more rumination compared to participants with low levels of positive beliefs, regardless of whether they received negative feedback, positive feedback or no feedback on their performance. Our findings demonstrate the importance of positive beliefs about rumination, and highlight the utility of treatment approaches that aim to reduce rumination by targeting such unhelpful metacognitive beliefs. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Metacognitive beliefs and strategies predict worry, obsessive,compulsive symptoms and coping styles: A preliminary prospective study on an Italian non-clinical sample

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORY & PRACTICE), Issue 4 2007
Claudio Sica
Eighty undergraduate students completed the Italian versions of the Metacognition Questionnaire and Thought Control Questionnaire along with well-established measures of worry, obsessive,compulsive symptoms and coping styles on two occasions four months apart. A series of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, after controlling the initial level of both worry and obsessionality, negative beliefs about worry focused on uncontrollability and danger appeared consistently associated with worry and obsessive symptoms at a four-month distance. In addition, positive beliefs about worry predicted maladaptive coping styles whereas cognitive self-consciousness and thought strategies aimed at distraction appeared to foster or facilitate adaptive coping styles. Results, implications and limitations are discussed according to Well's metacognitive model of emotional disorders.,Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Metacognitive beliefs increase vulnerability to rumination

APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2010
Michelle L. Moulds
Metacognitive beliefs about the benefits of rumination are associated with rumination and depression; however, the direction of these relationships remains unclear. Two experiments examined whether individuals with high positive beliefs about rumination engaged in more rumination following a laboratory-based stressor than individuals with low levels of such beliefs. In Study 1, participants with high levels of positive beliefs reported more rumination following receipt of negative feedback on a forced-failure anagram task. In Study 2, participants with high levels of positive beliefs reported more rumination compared to participants with low levels of positive beliefs, regardless of whether they received negative feedback, positive feedback or no feedback on their performance. Our findings demonstrate the importance of positive beliefs about rumination, and highlight the utility of treatment approaches that aim to reduce rumination by targeting such unhelpful metacognitive beliefs. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]