ArticleBMC psychology2020
Metacognitive beliefs mediate the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and traits of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
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- Cognitive and emotional traits as mediators in the relationship between family factors and obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Obsessive Beliefs, Metacognitive Beliefs, and Rumination in Parents of Adolescents with and Without Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Linear Mixed-Effects Model.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Orthorexia in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: the impact of perfectionism and metacognition.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Using Fear and Anxiety Related to COVID-19 to Predict Cyberchondria: Cross-sectional Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundMetacognition has been shown as a key contributor to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as well as other anxiety-related disorders, yet its role in the development and maintenance of these disorders remains unclear. This study aims to investigate whether anxiety sensitivity traits are related to obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the general population and whether the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive symptoms is mediated by metacognition.
methodsNon-clinical volunteers (N = 156, mean age: 23.97, 121 females) completed measures related to state/trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, obsessive compulsive symptoms and metacognition.
resultsA direct relationship between anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive symptoms was established. Further analysis revealed that metacognition was the strongest mediator of this relationship, even when accounting for state and trait anxiety.
conclusionsResults suggest that the relationships between traits of anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive symptoms are partially attributable to the role of metacognition.
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