Metacognition in eating disorders: Comparison of women with eating disorders, self-reported history of eating disorders or psychiatric problems, and healthy controls

Adolescent stress and symptoms of anxiety and depression: Resilience explains and differentiates the relationships

“…The remaining missing data points were replaced by participant's corresponding mean scale scores. A similar approach has been used elsewhere such as using the scale mean score (Olstad et al, 2015), and using the scale mode (Moksnes et al, 2010b). The final study sample consisted of 533 participants.…”

Impaired social cognition in anorexia nervosa patients

“…To date, the ability of metacognition of AN patients has been reported to be worse than HC. 19 , 20 , 33 , 34 Moreover, Arbel et al reported that metacognition might be an important mediator between basic cognitive deficits and poor insight. 35 However, little is known about whether coexisting clinical symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and starvation influence metacognition.…”

“…Olstad et al reported that metacognition explained 51% of the variance in eating disorder symptoms, with “need to control thoughts” being the most important factor. 20 Konstantakopoulos et al 37 and Steinglass et al 38 explained that distortion of body image was the main aspect of lack of awareness of the illness. Similarly, the present results could contribute to the explanation of some symptoms such as poor insight into disease or distortion of body image.…”

“…Metacognition is the ability to evaluate the accuracy of one’s own judgments, 18 and poor metacognition of AN patients has been reported. 19 , 20 Nevertheless, as far as we know, there is no study to investigate if metacognition of AN patients is influenced by clinical symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and starvation.…”

Circadian typology is related to emotion regulation, metacognitive beliefs and assertiveness in healthy adults

“…Several studies using the Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire [38], which assess a range of metacognitive domains related with psychopathological processes such as low cognitive confidence, positive beliefs about worry, cognitive self-conscientiousness, negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger, and belief concerning the need to control one's own thoughts, have shown a strong relationship between those and several psychological disorders and symptomatology. In this line, metacognitions have found to be related to different psychological issues such as depression [41], bipolar disorder [42], obsessive-compulsive disorder [43], generalized anxiety disorder [44], anxiety [45,46], gambling [47], substance use disorder [48] and eating disorders [49].…”