title: Cognitive self-consciousness and meta-worry and their relations to symptoms of worry and obsessional thoughts.
abstract: The relation between cognitive self-consciousness and meta-worry, and their association with symptoms of worry and obsessional thoughts were examined. 53 undergraduate students completed the expanded version of the Cognitive Self-consciousness Scale, the Meta-worry subscale of the Anxious Thoughts Inventory, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, and the Padua Inventory-Revised. Analysis showed that cognitive self-consciousness and meta-worry were moderately correlated (r =.57). Further, both constructs were positively associated with symptoms of worry and obsessional thoughts. When controlling for cognitive self-consciousness, metaworry remained significantly correlated to both types of symptoms. Yet, when controlling for meta-worry, correlations between cognitive self-consciousness and symptoms of worry and obsessional thoughts clearly attuned and were no longer significant. These findings suggest that meta-worry is more important for understanding excessive, intrusive thought patterns than the mere tendency to monitor one's thoughts.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. g.o.debruin@fsw.eur.no
authors.forename: Gwendolijn Olivia
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: de Bruin
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rassin
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Muris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013850:Thinking