Objective: To explore the role of metaworry in mediating the relationship between emotion-oriented coping and negative beliefs about rumination.
Methods: The cross-sectional transversal study was conducted at private, government and semi-government organization from February to October 2016. The sample comprised of educated adults from various professions working in the twin cities Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. The subjects were administered self-reporting Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation, Negative Beliefs about Rumination Scale and the Anxious Thought Inventory instruments to assess metacognitive self-regulation.
Results: Of the 514 subjects, 130(26%) were males and 384(74%) were females. The overall mean age was 32.56}6.69 years. The mean professional experience was approximately 9}6.30 years, with a mean 8.5}8.12 working hours. Academic cut-off was set at graduation, but approximately 355 (69%) subjects were postgraduates. The highest mean value for stressors was in the personal category 1.19}0.8, followed by work stressors 1.18}0.95, family stressors 1.08}-0.92 and environmental stressors 1.04}0.81.The mediating effects of metaworry had an effect size of 12.44% which depicted a small size.
Conclusions: Metaworry may not be specific to Generalised Anxiety Disorder, but is a susceptibility factor of psychological dysfunction in nonclinical population.
Keywords: Mediation, Negative beliefs about rumination, Emotion oriented coping, Metaworry.