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Psychological factors predicting stress symptoms: metacognition, thought control, and varieties of worry.
Roussis P, Wells A
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2008;21( 3).
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Abstract
This study tested predictions of the metacognitive model of post-traumatic stress disorder (Wells, 2000) concerning relationships between stress symptoms and maladaptive control of thoughts. We tested the hypothesis that the tendency to use worry as a means of controlling thoughts will be positively predictive of stress symptoms. In doing so, overlaps with symptomatic worry, stress symptoms, and stress exposure at time 1 was controlled. One hundred and ten (110) college students were assessed twice, over a three-month period. Consistent with predictions, use of worry as a thought control strategy made a significant and independent contribution to the prediction of stress symptoms. The findings provide further support for Wells' metacognitive model of stress reactions.
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Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; Cognition; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Great Britain; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Psychological Theory; Regression Analysis; prevention & control: Stress, Psychological; psychology: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; psychology: Students