Metacognitions And Psychological Flexibility Among The Patients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive And Compulsive Disorder, And Healthy Controls

Abstract

Abstract

Objective: The present study aimed to explore metacognitions and psychological flexibility among the patients with generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and healthy peoples and other objective was to determine the relationship among the variables metacognitions and psychological flexibility. Methods: Purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 participants from different hospital settings and community. For this, purpose 20 GAD, 20 OCD from different hospital settings of Kota (Raj) and 20 healthy peoples from community were selected and they were administered Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 7, Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ) and The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire II (AAQ II). The ANOVA and Post hoc were applied to analyze the data. The results as follows: Patients with GAD obtained significantly greater mean score on metacognitive beliefs than other two groups. Similarly, patients with OCD obtained significantly greater mean score on psychological flexibility than other two groups. The study aims in making the people aware of the various anxiety disorder and their psychological symptom and different coping strategies that can help them deal with the anxiety disorder in a better way, and thus maintaining their emotion. The review concludes with a summary of major research findings, as well as a consideration of future directions and implications for practice and policy.