Psychometric Characteristics of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire and Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 and Metacognitive Predictors of Worry and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in a Turkish Sample

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2008-11-01

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YILMAZ, ARZU AKMAN
Gençöz, Tülin
Wells, Adrian

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The purpose of the present study was twofold. First, to examine the psychometric properties of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) and the Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30) in a Turkish sample. Second, to investigate metacognitive predictors of pathological worry and obsessive-compulsive (o-c) symptoms in this group. The sample included 561 non-clinical participants. Consistent with non-English versions, the Turkish version of the PSWQ was found to have a two-factor structure. The MCQ-30 was shown to be composed of five factors similar to the English version. Reliability analyses indicated that both the PSWQ and MCQ-30 possessed high internal consistency, split-half reliability and test-retest coefficients. As expected, both scales positively correlated with measures of o-c symptoms, trait anxiety, and anxiety and depression, as well as with each other. Negative and positive metacognitive beliefs about worry were significant predictors of both pathological worry and o-c symptoms. Cognitive confidence emerged as a specific predictor of worry, while beliefs about the need to control thoughts emerged as a unique predictor of o-c symptoms. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Clinical Psychology

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47745

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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY

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https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.589

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A. A. YILMAZ, T. Gençöz, and A. Wells, “Psychometric Characteristics of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire and Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 and Metacognitive Predictors of Worry and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in a Turkish Sample,” CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY, pp. 424–439, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47745.