title: Dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs mediate the relation between temperament traits and hallucination-proneness in non-clinical population.
abstract: We investigated whether dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs (negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of thoughts) mediate the relationship between temperamental characteristics of behavior and hallucinatory-like experiences in healthy subjects (n=137). Our analyses showed that four temperamental traits (emotional reactivity, perseveration, endurance and briskness) were mediated by negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of thoughts in relation to hallucination proneness. Our research tentatively suggests that temperament affects hallucination proneness via metacognition.
authors: II Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
authors: Łukasz
authors: Ł
authors: Gawęda
authors: University for Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wroclaw, Poland.
authors: Ewelina
authors: E
authors: Cichoń
authors: University for Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wroclaw, Poland. Electronic address: rszczepanowski@swps.edu.pl.
authors: Remigiusz
authors: R
authors: Szczepanowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology*; D064368:Healthy Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000067489:Metacognition; D008875:Middle Aged; D013694:Temperament; D013850:Thinking
keywords: Hallucination proneness; Mediation analysis; Metacognition; Temperamental traits