Intolerance of uncertainty and negative metacognitive beliefs as transdiagnostic mediators of repetitive negative thinking in a clinical sample with anxiety disorders

McEvoy, Peter M.; Mahoney, Alison

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2013.01.006

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“…Most studies (81%) were descriptive in nature. Mechanistic constructs were more infrequent (19%), and causal transdiagnostic constructs were hardly ever reported (7%) and only during the most recent years (2017‐2018).…”

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Transdiagnostic psychiatry: a systematic review

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The usefulness of current psychiatric classification, which is based on ICD/DSM categorical diagnoses, remains questionable. A promising alternative has been put forward as the "transdiagnostic" approach. This is expected to cut across existing categorical diagnoses and go beyond them, to improve the way we classify and treat mental disorders. This systematic review explores whether self-defining transdiagnostic research meets such high expectations. A multi-step Web of Science literature search was performed according to an a priori protocol, to identify all studies that used the word "transdiagnostic" in their title, up to May 5, 2018. Empirical variables which indexed core characteristics were extracted, complemented by a bibliometric and conceptual analysis. A total of 111 studies were included. Most studies were investigating interventions, followed by cognition and psychological processes, and neuroscientific topics. Their samples ranged from 15 to 91,199 (median 148) participants, with a mean age from 10 to more than 60 (median 33) years. There were several methodological inconsistencies relating to the definition of the gold standard (DSM/ICD diagnoses), of the outcome measures and of the transdiagnostic approach. The quality of the studies was generally low and only a few findings were externally replicated. The majority of studies tested transdiagnostic features cutting across different diagnoses, and only a few tested new classification systems beyond the existing diagnoses. About one fifth of the studies were not transdiagnostic at all, because they investigated symptoms and not disorders, a single disorder, or because there was no diagnostic information. The bibliometric analysis revealed that transdiagnostic research largely restricted its focus to anxiety and depressive disorders. The conceptual analysis showed that transdiagnostic research is grounded more on rediscoveries than on true innovations, and that it is affected by some conceptual biases. To date, transdiagnostic approaches have not delivered a credible paradigm shift that can impact classification and clinical care. Practical "TRANSD"iagnostic recommendations are proposed here to guide future research in this field.

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“…Bean & Groth-Marnat, in press) few have examined how personality may influence attitudes toward games. However, it is not unreasonable to suggest that high neuroticism and low openness may predict negative beliefs about games as such personality traits are typically connected with greater worrying (McEvoy & Mahoney, 2013) and difficulty adopting new technologies in job-related contexts (Minbashian, Earl, & Bright, 2013) or relating to different styles of media such as heavy metal (Swami et al, 2013).…”

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Clinicians’ attitudes toward video games vary as a function of age, gender and negative beliefs about youth: A sociology of media research approach

Ferguson

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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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

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Wells

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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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Intolerance of uncertainty and negative metacognitive beliefs as transdiagnostic mediators of repetitive negative thinking in a clinical sample with anxiety disorders

Cited by 78 publications

References 79 publications

Transdiagnostic psychiatry: a systematic review

Transdiagnostic psychiatry: a systematic review

Clinicians’ attitudes toward video games vary as a function of age, gender and negative beliefs about youth: A sociology of media research approach

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

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