Metacognition and Emotional Schemas: Effects on Depression and Anxiety

Leahy, Robert L.; Wupperman, Peggilee; Edwards, Emily; Shivaji, Sindhu; Molina, Nicolette

doi:10.1007/s41811-018-0035-8

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“…According to the results, positive metacognitive beliefs and negative metacognitive beliefs are able to predict learning anxiety. This finding is consistent with the findings of earlier studies (Leahy et al, 2019;Sirota, Moskovchenko, Yaltonsky, & Yaltonskaya, 2018;Spada et al, 2008;Zivcic-Becirevic, Guretic, & Miljevic, 2009). The more positive metacognitive beliefs a person has, the more they will reinforce positive experiences and reduce anxiety.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…But there is a negative relationship between metacognition and test anxiety. Leahy, Wupperman, Edwards, Shivaji, and Molina (2019) in a study propose that metacognitive processes are more likely to be activated if individuals have negative beliefs about emotional experience. They indicate that metacognition has an effect on anxiety and metacognitive, avoidance, and emotional schema models contribute to depression and anxiety.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Investigating The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in The Relationship Between Meta-cognitive Beliefs and Learning Anxiety

Yousefi

Barzegar

Kouroshnia

et al. 2021

Iranian Evolutionary and Educational Psychology

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in The Relationship Between Meta-cognitive Beliefs and Learning Anxiety

Yousefi

Barzegar

Kouroshnia

et al. 2021

Iranian Evolutionary and Educational Psychology

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“…This is a constant anxiety that most people will experience during the pandemic. This state can be affected by metacognitions about health, which reflect one's cognitions regarding health-related cognitions responsible for various emotional disorders (Leahy et al, 2018 ; Yilmaz et al, 2015 ). Metacognitive beliefs concerning uncontrollability and danger of thoughts can predict symptoms of health anxiety (Brown et al, 2019 ; Gutierrez et al, 2020 ; Rachor & Penney, 2020 ); suggesting that beliefs about the power of thoughts to cause illness and a feeling of inability to stop the thinking would elevate the health anxiety through threat interpretation of thoughts (Melli et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metacognitions About Health in Relation to Coronavirus Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Attentional Syndrome and Distress Tolerance

Mohammadkhani

Akbari

Shahbahrami

et al. 2022

J Rat-Emo Cognitive-Behav Ther

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The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive attentional syndrome (CAS) and distress tolerance in the relationship between health-related metacognitions and coronavirus anxiety. The sample of this study consisted of 462 participants (381 female). Participants voluntarily completed self-report questionnaires on each of the variables mentioned above. The results of the structural modeling analysis showed that health-related metacognitions have a significant effect on the mediator variable of distress tolerance and CAS. Also, health-related metacognitions had a direct effect on coronavirus anxiety. Also, based on the results of the bootstrap test, it can be argued that health-related metacognitive beliefs, apart from their direct effect, play an important role in coronavirus anxiety, with CAS acting as a mediator. This study provides insights into the relationships among metacognitive beliefs, coronavirus anxiety, CAS, and distress tolerance. In particular, dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs, including an individual's beliefs about the uncontrollability of disease-related thoughts, are risk factors that could negatively affect mental health, leading to coronavirus anxiety. In addition, the association of dysfunctional beliefs with maladaptive behaviors resulting from the cognitive attentional syndrome is also involved in predicting and causing coronavirus anxiety. Given the insignificant role of emotional distress tolerance in the psychopathology of COVID-19 anxiety, the findings emphasize the importance of cognitive factors in this context.

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“…One model of depression with wide support, the metacognitive model of rumination, posits that rumination is the mechanism by which reasoning deficits develop and depressive behaviors worsen (Papageorgiou and Wells 2003;Jelinek et al, 2017). The model follows that rumination may be underpinned by dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs about emotion (Leahy et al, 2019). For example, that emotions are out of one's control (Snyder and Hankin, 2016;Papageorgiou and Wells, 2001) or that they will be invalidated by the environment (Westphal et al, 2016;Edwards et al, 2017).…”

Section: Metacognition In Depressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negative Global Metacognitive Biases are Associated with Greater Depressive Symptoms and Covary with Symptom Changes over Time

Agnoli¹,

Zuberer²,

Nanni³

et al. 2022

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Objective: We sought to better characterize global metacognitive sensitivity and bias in a Veteran sample. Methods: In the current study, we examined a sample of trauma-exposed post-9/11 Veterans (N = 467), across subjective cognitive functioning on the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II and objective functioning on a global battery of neuropsychological tasks including memory, attention, task-switching, verbal skills, and inhibition. Metacognitive health awareness scores were calculated using self-reported general health and an objective index of five cardiometabolic dimensions. Metacognitive sensitivity was calculated as a correlation between subjective and objective measures, while bias was calculated as a difference score between subjective and objective measures. Longitudinal analyses occurred in a reduced sample (N = 267) tracking changes in metacognition and clinical symptoms. Results: Metacognitive sensitivity was comparable between individuals with and without PTSD and depression diagnoses (r ~=.21-.30). However, metacognitive bias was significantly more negative in individuals with greater depressive symptoms independent of PTSD symptoms, such that Veterans with greater depressive consistently underestimated their cognitive abilities and health relative to healthy Veterans. Further, changes in metacognitive bias covaried with changes in depressive and PTSD symptoms two years later. Conclusions: Our results suggest specificity to negative metacognitive bias in Veterans with depressive symptoms independent of PTSD, though metacognitive sensitivity was relatively stable. Further, changes in metacognitive bias covary with changes in PTSD and depressive symptoms.

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Metacognition and Emotional Schemas: Effects on Depression and Anxiety

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

Investigating The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in The Relationship Between Meta-cognitive Beliefs and Learning Anxiety

Investigating The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in The Relationship Between Meta-cognitive Beliefs and Learning Anxiety

Metacognitions About Health in Relation to Coronavirus Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Attentional Syndrome and Distress Tolerance

Negative Global Metacognitive Biases are Associated with Greater Depressive Symptoms and Covary with Symptom Changes over Time

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