Relationships between metacognitive beliefs, social evaluative threat and worry.

Relationships between metacognitive beliefs, social evaluative threat and worry. Conscious Cogn. 2019 Oct 22;76:102837 Authors: Trouillet R, Guerdoux-Ninot E, Jebbar N Abstract A worry state is assumed to emerge from the interaction between metacognitive beliefs, and the appraisal of environmental demands (Wells & Matthews, 1994). The aim of this study was to show that metacognitive beliefs moderate the effect of sources of social evaluative threat on worry. Our sample (N = 174) completed a working memory task in two contexts (threatful vs. neutral), while both pre- and post-task measures subjective stress states were recorded. Our results confirmed significant effects of sources of social evaluative threat and metacognitive beliefs on worry. The interaction metacognition * threat context effect on worry was not significant. Our findings support the hypothesis that worry is a form of subjective stress explained by a combination of outcome uncontrollability and social evaluative threat. Social evaluative threat and metacognitive beliefs appeared as two, independent predictors of a worry state. Our results are discussed in reference to the Self Regulative model of stress. PMID: 31654982 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Conscious Cogn Source Type: research