Beliefs about Worry and Intrusions: The Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire and its Correlates

Cartwright‐Hatton, Sam; Wells, Adrian

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“…These are measured in the Metacognitions Questionnaire (CartwrightHatton & Wells, 1997;Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004). Wells and colleagues have shown that dysfunctional metacognitions are associated with disorders and symptoms including psychosis, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, hypocondriasis, and PTSD.…”

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Mechanisms of mindfulness

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Recently, the psychological construct mindfulness has received a great deal of attention. The majority of research has focused on clinical studies to evaluate the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions. This line of research has led to promising data suggesting mindfulness-based interventions are effective for treatment of both psychological and physical symptoms. However, an equally important direction for future research is to investigate questions concerning mechanisms of action underlying mindfulness-based interventions. This theoretical paper proposes a model of mindfulness, in an effort to elucidate potential mechanisms to explain how mindfulness affects positive change. Potential implications and future directions for the empirical study of mechanisms involved in mindfulness are addressed.

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“…Papageorgiou & Wells, 2009). Studies that have tested the role of metacognition in psychological disorders have used the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ: Cartwright-Hatton & Wells, 1997) or the shortened version MCQ-30 ). This measure captures 5 different dimensions of metacognition on the following subscales; 1) positive beliefs about worry, (2) negative beliefs about thoughts concerning uncontrollability and danger, (3) cognitive confidence (4) negative beliefs concerning the consequences of not controlling thoughts, and (5) cognitive self-consciousness.…”

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Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

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2015

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“…Indeed, this metacognition had not been found to be linked to psychopathology in both clinical and non-clinical samples in the past (e.g. Cartwright-Hatton and Wells 1997;Sica et al 2007;Bacow et al 2009) and research showed that an increased awareness of monitoring one's thoughts may not necessary lead psychological problems under certain circumstances. In line with this argument, our study highlighted its potential and beneficial role in leading to adaptive coping strategies and thus predicting two PMH domains.…”

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“…In psychopathology metacognitions are typically assessed using the Metacognitions Questionnaire 30 developed by Cartwright-Hatton and Wells (1997;Wells and Cartwright-Hatton, 2004). The MCQ-30 assesses the following metacognitions domains: (i) positive beliefs about worry (reflecting beliefs that perseverative thinking is useful); (ii) negative beliefs about thoughts concerning uncontrollability and danger (reflecting beliefs that thinking may be uncontrollable and harmful); (iii) cognitive confidence (reflecting beliefs in one's own attention and memory); (iv) beliefs about the need to control thoughts; and (v) cognitive self-consciousness (reflecting beliefs about the tendency to self-focus attention and monitor thoughts).…”

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Personality Traits and Metacognitions as Predictors of Positive Mental Health in College Students

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Personality, metacognitions and positive mental health 1 This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Happiness Studies. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9825-y. AbstractPresence and absence of both psychological distress and well-being are important in predicting life outcomes among youths. Recently, scholars have been paying increased attention to the role of positive mental health (PMH) in predicting psycho-social well-being among young people. The present study aims to test a model designed to assess the unique contribution of personality traits and metacognitions to four domains of PMH (belief-in-self, belief-in-others, emotional competence, and engaged living) among young adults. A total of 795 Italian college students participated in the study.Path analysis revealed that different personality traits were contributors to different PMH domains, and that four of the five metacognitions domains (negative beliefs about thoughts, cognitive confidence, need to control thoughts, and cognitive self-consciousness) differently predicted the four PMH domains. In conclusion it would appear that a combination of personality traits and metacognitions are differently involved in PMH domains. These should be taken into account when developing preventive programmes to promote PMH among young adults.

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Beliefs about Worry and Intrusions: The Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire and its Correlates

Cited by 789 publications

References 11 publications

Mechanisms of mindfulness

Mechanisms of mindfulness

Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

Personality Traits and Metacognitions as Predictors of Positive Mental Health in College Students

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