Dose meta‐cognition or responsibility predict obsessive–compulsive symptoms: a test of the metacognitive model

Cognitive–behavioural therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder

“…A related process is 'moral thought-action fusion', which is the belief that thinking about a bad action is morally equivalent to doing it. Lastly, there is 'thought-object fusion', which is a belief that objects can become contaminated by 'catching' memories or other people's experiences (Gwilliam et al, 2004).…”

Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

“…The Wells & Matthews (1994; model is supported by data demonstrating that metacognitive knowledge in the form of specific beliefs individuals hold about their own cognition is reliably correlated with emotional disorder and symptoms, such as OCD (e.g. Gwilliam, Wells, & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004), generalised anxiety (e.g. Khawaja & McMahon, 2011;Wells & Carter, 1999;, PTSD (Bennet & Wells, 2010) and depression (e.g.…”

Dysfunctional Metacogntive Beliefs in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

“…It was designed to measure the three types of thought fusions: ThoughtAction Fusion, Thought-Event Fusion and Thought-Object Fusion. Gwilliam et al [13] obtained acceptable reliability and preliminary evidence supports its convergent and discriminate validity. Also, other studies have showed the correlation from 0.4 to 0.7 between TFI and metacognitive beliefs instrument and thought action fusion [14].…”