Metacognitions in Problem Gambling

Lindberg, Annika; Fernie, Bruce A.; Spada, Marcantonio M.

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“…The Metacognitive Theory maintains that nonfunctional beliefs about cognitions, which form the metacognitions, are central to the improvement and maintenance of psychological disorders (Wells, 2000;Wells & Mathews, 1994). For example, these beliefs have also been found to be related to other distress phenomena, for instance, perfectionism (Flett, Hewitt, Blankstein, & Gray, 1998), eating disorders (e.g., Vitousek, 1996), pathological gambling (Lindberg et al, 2011), physical symptoms of illness (Aydin, 1997), suicide-related responses (Nock & Kazdin, 2002), seasonal affective disorder (e.g., Rohan, Sigmon, & Dorhofer, 2003), and generalized anxiety disorder . Moreover, Wells' (2009) metacognitive therapy (MCT) model accentuates the importance of both cognitive and metacognitive dimensions of thinking.…”

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Metacognition and Happiness: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

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2015

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Abstract:The basic aim of this research is to examine the mediating role of perceived stress between metacognition and happiness. The participants were 290 university students. In this study, the Metacognition Questionnaire-MCQ-30, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Short Form of Oxford Happiness Questionnaire were used. The relationships between metacognition, perceived stress, and happiness were examined using correlation analysis and Structural Equation Model (SEM). In correlation analysis, metacognition and perceived stress were found to be negatively related to happiness. On the other hand, metacognition was found to be positively correlated to perceived stress. Structural Equation Model showed that metacognition results in an increase in perceived stress in an unhappy person, whereas reduction in stress leads to happiness; however, metacognition also produces unhappiness. Results were discussed in the light of the related literature.

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Metacognition and Happiness: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

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2015

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“…Research has also shown that general negative metacognitive beliefs are elevated across addictive behaviours including alcohol (Spada, Caselli, & Wells, 2009; Wells, 2005;Spada, Zandvoort & Wells, 2007), gambling (Lindberg, Fernie & Spada, 2011), nicotine Spada, Nikčević, Moneta & Wells, 2007) and Internet use (Spada, Langston, Nikčević & Moneta, 2008). These studies have tended to show that negative metacognitive beliefs about the need to control thoughts and lack of cognitive confidence positively predict addictive behavior.…”

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Metacognition in addictive behaviors

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Over the last twenty years metacognitive theory has provided a novel framework, in the form of the Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) model, for conceptualizing psychological distress (Wells & Matthews, 1994;1996) Metacognition in Psychopathology: The Self-Regulatory Executive Function ModelThe term 'metacognition', which is most often associated with the work of John Flavell (1979;1987), can be broadly defined as knowledge and cognitive processes that are involved in the appraisal, control, or monitoring of thinking. Theory and research in metacognition emerged in developmental psychology and has, over the last forty years, been applied across various domains including aging, education, forensic psychology, memory, and neuropsychology (Dunlosky & Metcalfe, 2009;Nelson & Narens, 1990;Pintrich, 2000).More recently, as a result of the work of Adrian Wells and his colleagues, metacognition has applied to conceptualizing and treating psychological distress. Wells and Matthews (1994;1996) have proposed a multi-process model, the Self-Regulatory and by the third level in the model: metacognitive knowledge. Metacognitive knowledge is conceptualised as information and beliefs about cognition that are positive and negative in content (e.g. "Worrying will help me cope" and "Some thoughts are dangerous") and

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“…Although several studies dealt with the independent role of comorbid disorders (Johansson et al 2009;Lorains et al 2011) and metacognition (Lindberg et al 2011) on the onset of pathological gambling, to our knowledge no research has assessed whether the presence of concurrent psychological disorders could have accounted for the associations between metacognition and pathological gambling. Our data showed a higher level of comorbid disorders (especially depression and anxiety disorders) of the pathological gamblers associated with an increase in the severity of gambling.…”

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“…The mediational model was tested in according to Baron and Kenny's criteria (1986), thus fully or partially mediating relationship occurs when the relationship between the predictor and criterion is non-significant or still significant, respectively, after controlling for the effect of the mediator. Meditational analyses were chosen on the basis of the associations between metacognition and psychological disorders (Wells 2009(Wells , 2012, and between metacognition and gambling (Lindberg et al 2011). The significance of the indirect effect was tested utilizing a bootstrapping procedure, recommended in assessing the mediation models for small size samples (MacKinnon et al 2002;Preacher and Hayes 2004).…”

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“…Moreover, in Wells' model (2009), metacognition was divided into two sets of beliefs: negative beliefs regarding the significance, controllability and danger of specific types of inner events, and positive beliefs about coping strategies that impact on inner events. Although a growing body of evidence has provided that metacognition is associated with a large range of psychological problems including depression, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, nicotine dependence, problem drinking, pathological worry, post-traumatic stress disorders, predisposition to auditory hallucinations (Morrison et al 2000;Papageorgiou and Wells 2003;Roussis and Wells 2006;Spada et al 2007Spada et al , 2009Wells and Papageorgiou 1998;Wells 2005), few studies examined gambling using a metacognitive perspective (Brevers et al 2014;Caselli and Spada 2010;Lindberg et al 2011). Lindberg et al 2011 reported that metacognition independently predicted problem gambling when controlling for negative emotion.…”

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The Role of Metacognition in Pathological Gambling: A Mediation Model

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Pathological gambling involves multitudinous costs related to financial, legal, and public health care aspects, as well as to specific psychological disorders. Despite the overall evidence suggesting that comorbid disorders represent a risk factor for pathological gambling, there is scant evidence on the appropriate treatments for gamblers with such disorders. In this context, metacognitive therapy is an interesting approach because it considers psychological disorders as a result of the activation of perseverative cognitive processes and attentional strategies in response to inner events. Several studies report that metacognition is associated with different psychological problems. This study investigated the relationship among comorbid disorders, metacognition, and pathological gambling. 69 pathological gamblers at the first hospital admission and 58 controls drawn from general population (matched for age, gender, education) completed a battery of self report instruments: Symptom Checklist-90-R, Metacognition Questionnaire 30, South Oaks Gambling Scale. Compared to controls, pathological gamblers showed higher level of comorbid symptomatology and metacognition. Correlation analyses showed that: comorbid symptomatology and metacognition were positively and significantly correlated with pathological gambling; metacognition was positively and significantly associated with comorbid symptomatology. Mediation analysis indicated that dysfunctional metacognitive strategies could have an indirect effect on pathological gambling mediated by concurrent psychological disorders. These findings provide some implications for gambling treatment programs: pathological gamblers should be screened for psychiatric disorders, and metacognitive therapy could be considered a correct treatment of pathological gamblers. Metacognitive therapy might lead to the reduction of the pathological gambling by the diminishing of the concurrent psychological disorders.

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Metacognitions in Problem Gambling

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Metacognition and Happiness: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

Metacognition and Happiness: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

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