رابطه فرا شناخت با اضطراب و علائم وسواس در جمعيت غير باليني

This study tests two hypotheses, predicting first the meta- cognition is correlated with anxiety and obsessive- compulsive (O-C) symptoms, second that the meta- cognitive predictor of anxiety are different from the meta- cognitive predictor of O-C symptoms. A sample of the present study was 072students cluster randomly selected from various universities of P ayam Noor in Isfahan city and completed the following questionnaires : Meta- cognition questionnaire- 02(MCQ-02), state- trait anxiety inventory (STAI) , and Maudsley , obsessive compulsive inventory (MOCI). Data were analyzed using pearson correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis .Result: The study showed that significant correlation between meta- cognition , O-C symptoms and anxiety were observed in nonclinical population. In regression analyses MCQ subscale, cognitive confidence, uncontrollability and danger were the strongest predictors of anxiety and also need to control thought , uncontrollability and danger , and positive belies were the strongest predictors of O-C symptoms. And also this study showed that anxiety and O-C symptoms have different meta- cognitive predictors. Result of this study support the meta- cognitive model of OCD and show that meta- cognition have the important role in O-C symptoms but its predictors are different.