Irak, MetehanTosun, Ahmet2024-05-252024-05-252008530887-61851873-789710.1016/j.janxdis.2008.01.0122-s2.0-53149146283https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.01.012https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/626Irak, Metehan/0000-0003-2067-9033This study tests three hypotheses, predicting first that metacognition is highly correlated with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive (O-C) symptoms, second that it mediates the relationship between O-C symptoms and anxiety, and third that the meta-cognitive predictors of anxiety are different from the meta-cognitive predictors of O-C symptoms. The sample of the present study was 850 students selected from various universities in Turkey. Significant correlations between metacognition, O-C symptoms and anxiety were observed. Also, mediation analysis confirmed that metacognition fully mediated the relationship between O-C symptoms and anxiety. Consistent with our hypothesis, trait anxiety and O-C symptoms had different meta-cognitive predictors. Although, we expected that meta-cognitive beliefs would vary based on the sub-type of O-C symptoms, meta-cognitive beliefs did not differ according to the O-C symptom subtypes. We discussed results with reference to the literature of meta-cognition, anxiety and O-C symptoms. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All fights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessMetacognitionObsessive-compulsive symptomsAnxietyMediationArticleQ1Q122813161325WOS:00026015090000518339516