Metacognitive Beliefs and Metacognitive Capacity: Do They Assess Related Phenomena? [PDF]
Abstract Metacognition has been defined several ways across different fields. In schizophrenia, two primary approaches to assessing metacognition focus on measuring metacognitive beliefs and metacognitive capacity. The degree of association between these two approaches is unclear.
Ayala A +7 more
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The Role of Metacognitive Beliefs in Predicting Academic Procrastination Among Students in Iran: Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
BackgroundAcademic procrastination is a challenge that many students face. Metacognitive beliefs are the main cause of academic procrastination because they are one of the main reasons for students' academic failure or progress.
Yahya Safari, Nasrin Yousefpoor
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Metacognitive Beliefs in Alexithymic Individuals
We aimed to determine the differences between metacognitive beliefs in individuals with and without alexithymia, and to identify the relationship between alexithymia and metacognitive beliefs and the predictive role of metacognitive beliefs in ...
Zekiye Celikbas +3 more
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Testing times: the association of intolerance of uncertainty and metacognitive beliefs to test anxiety in college students [PDF]
Background Test anxiety has a detrimental effect on test performance but current interventions for test anxiety have limited efficacy. Therefore, examination of newer psychological models of test anxiety is now required. Two transdiagnostic psychological
Christopher Huntley +4 more
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Effect of CBT on Metacognitive Beliefs in Depressive Disorders. [PDF]
Metacognitive beliefs operate through cognitive attentional syndrome, where attention concentrated on negative automatic thoughts results in rumination. This perseverative thinking style manifesting in the form of rumination and worry intensifies depression.
Gupta A, Kumari S.
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Exploring intergenerational links and genetic correlates of metacognitive beliefs: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
BackgroundMetacognitive beliefs, as proposed in the Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) model, are considered to play a central role in the development and maintenance of psychological disorders; however the intergenerational dimension of these ...
Stefano De Francesco +11 more
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Metacognitive beliefs and rumination as predictors of anger: A prospective study
The metacognitive approach conceptualizes the relationship between anger and rumination as driven by metacognitive beliefs, which are information individuals hold about their own cognition and about coping strategies that impact on it. The present study aimed to test the prospective predictive impact of metacognitive beliefs and rumination on anger in ...
Gabriele Caselli +2 more
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Negative cognitive beliefs, positive metacognitive beliefs, and rumination as mediators of metacognitive training for depression in older adults (MCT-Silver). [PDF]
BackgroundMetacognitive Training for Depression in older adults (MCT-Silver; www.uke.de/mct-silver) is a cognitive-behavioral based group intervention that aims at reducing depression by targeting (meta)cognitive beliefs and rumination. In the present study, it was examined whether negative cognitive beliefs, positive metacognitive beliefs and/or ...
Schneider BC +7 more
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Metacognitive Beliefs and Suicidal Ideation: An Experience Sampling Study. [PDF]
The current study aimed to examine the relationship between metacognitive beliefs about suicidal ideation and the content and process of suicidal ideation. This was to examine the potential contribution of the Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) model (Wells and Matthew, 2015) to suicidal ideation.
Aadahl V, Wells A, Hallard R, Pratt D.
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Cyberchondria refers to the repeated use of the Internet to search for health information that leads to negative consequences. The present set of studies examined the tenability of a proposed metacognitive conceptualization of cyberchondria that includes metacognitive beliefs about health-related thoughts, beliefs about rituals, and stop signals.
Thomas A Fergus, Marcantonio M Spada
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