Metacognitive beliefs about rumination in recurrent major depression

Papageorgiou, Costas; Wells, Adrian

doi:10.1016/s1077-7229(01)80021-3

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“…Secondly, these findings confirm the idea that rumination is an attentional strategy for reducing emotional discomfort (Papageorgiou & Wells, 2001;Watkins & Baracaia, 2001;Gross & Thompson, 2007). Finally, our results are consistent with findings of other studies that observed that suppression was used to regulate many negative emotions, such as anger, and to decrease the subjective experience of positive emotions (Gross & Levenson, 1997;Gross, 1998).…”

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Specific Beliefs about Emotions Are Associated with Different Emotion-Regulation Strategies

Trincas¹,

Bilotta²,

Mancini³

2016

PSYCH

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Despite evidence pointing to the associations of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (ERS) with psychopathology, little is known about their underlying mechanisms. Coherently with cognitive models, this study tested the hypothesis that specific beliefs about emotions may be associated with difficulties in emotion regulation and the use of different ERS (reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, rumination, avoidant coping, experiential avoidance). Consistently with the role of avoidance in the cognitive model of worry, we sought testing a mediation pattern where negative beliefs about emotions were connected to maladaptive ERS through experiential avoidance. 309 participants filled out an online questionnaire that measured beliefs about emotions, difficulties in emotion-regulation, and the tendency to adopt different ERS. Results showed that negative beliefs and high fear of emotions were associated with the use of specific ERS and avoidance coping. Fear of depressed mood and anxiety was associated with rumination and emotional avoidance, whereas emotion suppression was mainly associated with fear of anger and positive affect. Also, we found that experiential avoidance mediated the association between beliefs about emotion, rumination and emotional avoidance. Results provided evidence about the specific associations between beliefs about emotions and emotion-regulation processes, suggesting that beliefs about emotions may play a role in orienting specific ER styles.

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Specific Beliefs about Emotions Are Associated with Different Emotion-Regulation Strategies

Trincas¹,

Bilotta²,

Mancini³

2016

PSYCH

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“…Women, in particular, have been observed to ruminate in even greater numbers (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1996;. Furthermore, in a recent study, 80% of self-identified ruminators and 100% of individuals with major depression reported various benefits to rumination, such as increased control over one's feelings and deeper self-understanding and insight into current problems (Papageorgiou & Wells, 2001a;Watkins & Baracaia, 2000). Indeed, contemporary Western culture appears to embrace the notion that contemplating one's feelings in the face of personal problems and negative moods is valuable and adaptive.…”

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The Consequences of Dysphoric Rumination

Lyubomirsky

Tkach

2003

Depressive Rumination

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“…A greater endorsement of negative metacognitive beliefs has been associated with anxiety (Davis & Valentier, 2000;McEvoy & Mahoney, 2013), depression (Papageorgiou & Wells, 2001) and obsessive compulsive disorder (Wells & Papageorgiou, 1998). In addition prospective cohort studies have found that higher levels of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs at baseline predict subsequent severity of anxiety and depression (Hjemdal, Stiles, & Wells, 2013;Papageorgiou & Wells, 2009;Yilmaz, Gencoz, & Wells, 2011).…”

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A meta-analysis of metacognitive beliefs as implicated in the self-regulatory executive function model in clinical psychosis

Sellers

Varese

Wells

et al. 2017

Schizophrenia Research

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This meta-analysis investigated whether the five metacognitive beliefs implicated in the Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) model (Wells & Matthews, 1994;Wells & Matthews, 1996) are elevated in people with clinical psychosis compared to people with emotional disorder and non-psychiatric controls. The review followed guidance set-out in the PRISMA statement. Primary analyses compared summary effect sizes on each sub-scale of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ) for people with psychosis and non-psychiatric controls; and people with psychosis and people with emotional disorder. Eleven eligible studies were identified comprised of 568 psychosis participants, 212 emotional disorder participants and 776 nonpsychiatric controls. Findings indicated that people with psychosis had higher scores on all sub-scales of the MCQ compared to non-psychiatric controls; and higher scores on the positive beliefs about worry sub-scale compared to people with emotional disorder. This suggests metacognitive beliefs may be associated with the presence of psychological disorder and distress in general, rather than specific diagnoses. Implications for models of psychosis and treatment are discussed.

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Metacognitive beliefs about rumination in recurrent major depression

Cited by 321 publications

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Specific Beliefs about Emotions Are Associated with Different Emotion-Regulation Strategies

Specific Beliefs about Emotions Are Associated with Different Emotion-Regulation Strategies

The Consequences of Dysphoric Rumination

A meta-analysis of metacognitive beliefs as implicated in the self-regulatory executive function model in clinical psychosis

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