TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the role of metacognition in obsessive-compulsive and anxiety symptoms
AU - Irak, Metehan
AU - Tosun, Ahmet
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - This study tests three hypotheses, predicting first that metacognition is highly correlated with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive (O-C) symptoms, second that it mediates the relationship between O-C symptoms and anxiety, and third that the meta-cognitive predictors of anxiety are different from the meta-cognitive predictors of O-C symptoms. The sample of the present study was 850 students selected from various universities in Turkey. Significant correlations between metacognition, O-C symptoms and anxiety were observed. Also, mediation analysis confirmed that metacognition fully mediated the relationship between O-C symptoms and anxiety. Consistent with our hypothesis, trait anxiety and O-C symptoms had different meta-cognitive predictors. Although, we expected that meta-cognitive beliefs would vary based on the sub-type of O-C symptoms, meta-cognitive beliefs did not differ according to the O-C symptom subtypes. We discussed results with reference to the literature of meta-cognition, anxiety and O-C symptoms.
AB - This study tests three hypotheses, predicting first that metacognition is highly correlated with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive (O-C) symptoms, second that it mediates the relationship between O-C symptoms and anxiety, and third that the meta-cognitive predictors of anxiety are different from the meta-cognitive predictors of O-C symptoms. The sample of the present study was 850 students selected from various universities in Turkey. Significant correlations between metacognition, O-C symptoms and anxiety were observed. Also, mediation analysis confirmed that metacognition fully mediated the relationship between O-C symptoms and anxiety. Consistent with our hypothesis, trait anxiety and O-C symptoms had different meta-cognitive predictors. Although, we expected that meta-cognitive beliefs would vary based on the sub-type of O-C symptoms, meta-cognitive beliefs did not differ according to the O-C symptom subtypes. We discussed results with reference to the literature of meta-cognition, anxiety and O-C symptoms.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Mediation
KW - Metacognition
KW - Obsessive-compulsive symptoms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=53149146283&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.01.012
DO - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.01.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 18339516
AN - SCOPUS:53149146283
SN - 0887-6185
VL - 22
SP - 1316
EP - 1325
JO - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
JF - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
IS - 8
ER -
