Unique Contributions of Metacognition and Cognition to Depressive Symptoms

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2015-01-01

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YILMAZ, ADVİYE ESİN
Gençöz, Tülin
Wells, Adrian

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This study attempts to examine the unique contributions of cognitions or metacognitions to depressive symptoms while controlling for their intercorrelations and comorbid anxiety. Two-hundred-and-fifty-one university students participated in the study. Two complementary hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed, in which symptoms of depression were regressed on the dysfunctional attitudes (DAS-24 subscales) and metacognition scales (Negative Beliefs about Rumination Scale [NBRS] and Positive Beliefs about Rumination Scale [PBRS]). Results showed that both NBRS and PBRS individually explained a significant amount of variance in depressive symptoms above and beyond dysfunctional schemata while controlling for anxiety. Although dysfunctional attitudes as a set significantly predicted depressive symptoms after anxiety and metacognitions were controlled for, they were weaker than metacognitive variables and none of the DAS-24 subscales contributed individually. Metacognitive beliefs about ruminations appeared to contribute more to depressive symptoms than dysfunctional beliefs in the cognitive domain.

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Cognition, Depression, Depressive symptoms, Dysfunctional attitudes, Metacognition, Schema

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32943

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JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2014.964658

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Department of Psychology, Article

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A. E. YILMAZ, T. Gençöz, and A. Wells, “Unique Contributions of Metacognition and Cognition to Depressive Symptoms,” JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 23–33, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32943.