MCQ-30
Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire (MCQ-30)
The MCQ-30 is a self-report questionnaire that assesses metacognitive beliefs, which are important in understanding and treating psychological disorders such as anxiety and depressive disorders. It consists of five subdimensions that make it possible to analyze different facets of thoughts about thinking itself.
- Number of questions
- 30 questions
- Estimated duration
- 10 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire
- Target audience
- Adults
- Authors
- Adrian Wells, Peter Cartwright (2004)
- Category
- Depression, Anxiety
Scoring & interpretation
Each item is rated from 1 (do not agree) to 4 (agree very much). The item scores for each subscale are added up to obtain five subscale scores. A global total score can be calculated by adding up all the items, reflecting the overall amount of dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs.
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