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Validation of the Serbian version of the Metacognitions Questionnaire‐30 in nonclinical and clinical samples
Author(s) -
Marković Vuk,
Purić Danka,
VukosavljevićGvozden Tatjana,
Begović Aleksandar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/cpp.2366
Subject(s) - worry , psychology , metacognition , clinical psychology , anxiety , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , psychopathology , population , pathological , serbian , psychometrics , psychiatry , structural equation modeling , cognition , medicine , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , environmental health
The Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ‐30) is a brief multidimensional measure used for assessment of metacognitive beliefs in psychopathology. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of MCQ‐30 in Serbian nonclinical ( n = 246) and clinical ( n = 171; anxiety and depressive disorders) samples. The reliability of the questionnaire and its subscales was satisfactory. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a five‐factor solution in both groups, whereas a confirmatory factor analysis showed a somewhat weaker fit of the model. The MCQ‐30 showed positive associations with measures of anxiety, pathological worry, depressive, and obsessive–compulsive symptoms in both samples, demonstrating adequate convergent validity. The instrument was sensitive to differences in metacognitive beliefs between nonclinical and clinical samples. MCQ‐30 subscales showed incremental contributions in predicting pathological worry after controlling for the variance in obsessive–compulsive symptoms and vice versa. Our results suggest that the MCQ‐30 is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing metacognitive beliefs in both nonclinical and clinical samples. Moreover, the findings support the use of the MCQ‐30 in Serbian population and extend support for the metacognitive model.