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Stop Rules for Worrying & Checking: A Metacognitive Factor in Perseverative Psychopathologies

Stop Rules for Worrying & Checking: A Metacognitive Factor in Perseverative Psychopathologies. Graham Davey University of Sussex, UK. Collaborators. Benie MacDonald Helen Startup Gary Britton Suzanne Dash Frances Meeten Fergal Jones. Introduction.

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Stop Rules for Worrying & Checking: A Metacognitive Factor in Perseverative Psychopathologies

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  1. Stop Rules for Worrying & Checking: A Metacognitive Factor in Perseverative Psychopathologies Graham Davey University of Sussex, UK

  2. Collaborators Benie MacDonald Helen Startup Gary Britton Suzanne Dash Frances Meeten Fergal Jones

  3. Introduction • Perseveration is a defining element of many psychopathologies • Examples include worrying (GAD), checking (OCD), rumination (in major depression) • Perseverative activities are usually ‘neutralizing’ activities • Linked to meta-cognitive and global beliefs about how to deal with distressing emotions

  4. What are ‘stop rules’? Relate to Task Motivation Performance Focused OR Task Focused ‘Enough’ OR ‘Enjoy’ ‘As Many as Can’ (AMA) OR ‘Feel Like Continuing’ (FL)

  5. What do we know about stop rules? • Often not easily verbalizable • Can often be derived from dispositional characteristics or meta-beliefs about emotional control strategies • Stop rule type is linked to mood • Stop rules interact with mood to determine perseveration at a task (the ‘Mood-as-Input Hypothesis’, Davey, 2006, Startup & Davey, 2001).

  6. Stop Rule x Mood Interaction Effects • Hawksley & Davey (2010) • Depressive Rumination Task • Participants asked to iterate what had made them feel depressed during a recent episode of depression • Both mood (positive v negative) and stop rule (AMA v FL) were manipulated

  7. Hawksley & Davey (2010)

  8. Perseverative Worrying Manipulating Stop Rule (Startup & Davey, 2001) Stop Rules & Responsibility (Startup & Davey, 2003) Stop Rule deployment in High & Low Worriers (Davey et al., 2005) Do stop rules change during a worry bout? (Davey et al., 2007)

  9. The Catastrophizing Interview • I’m worried about not being able to move • That I would be attacked in some way • That I would not be able to fight back • That I would not be able to control what other people did to me • That I would feel inadequate • That other people would begin to think I was inadequate • That in my relationship with those people I would not be respected • That I would not have any influence over others • That other people would not listen to me • That it would cause a loss of self-esteem • That this loss of self-esteem would have a negative effect on my relationships with others • That I would lose friends • That I would be alone • That I would have no-one to talk to • Because it would mean that I would not be able to share any thoughts/problems with other people • That I would not get advice from others • That none of my problems would be adequately sorted out • That they would remain and get worse • That eventually I would not be able to cope with them • That eventually my problems would have more control over me than I had over them • That they would prevent me from doing other things • That I would be unable to meet new people and make friends • That I would be lonely

  10. Manipulating Stop Rules in High & Low Worriers

  11. Characteristics leading to the deployment of AMA stop rules

  12. Worry Stop Rule Check List AMA – ‘Enough’ FL – ‘Enjoy’ I must find a solution to this problem, so keep thinking about it. I must try and think about the worst possible outcome, just in case it happens I must think everything through properly What’s done is done, so what’s the point in worrying? I don’t have time to think about this now Stop worrying, things always work out for the best.

  13. Davey, Startup, MacDonald, Jenkins & Patterson (2005)

  14. What ends a worry bout? - Mood changes during worrying

  15. Changes in Stop Rule Endorsement

  16. Perseverative Checking Compulsive checkers deploy AMA stop rules (Meyer, Fisher & Wells, 2009) Termination of rituals often based on subjective stop criteria Explanatory constructs such as ‘Inflated Responsibility’ interact with mood (MacDonald & Davey, 2005) It is the goal-directed nature of checking that causes perseveration, not its complexity

  17. MacDonald & Davey (2005) Black = High Responsibility White = Low Responsibility

  18. Stop Rule is not Independent of Mood Negative mood facilitates endorsement of AMA checking stop rules (Gary Britton) Negative mood facilitates endorsement of AMA worry stop rules (Suzanne Dash)

  19. Britton & Davey (2011)Mood & Checking Stop Rules

  20. Dash & Davey (2011)Mood & Worrying Stop Rules

  21. Dash & Davey (2011)Systematic Processing & AMA deployment mediate effect of Negative Mood on Worry Scores

  22. Summary • AMA Stop Rules + Negative Mood = Perseveration • Perseveration is not a Dispositional Style • Perseveration is a Performance Factor caused by a configuration of stop rule and mood • Deployment of AMA stop rules is facilitated by Negative Mood

  23. Future Directions • More Research on Stop Rules in Clinical Populations • Characteristics of Clinical Populations Facilitate Mood-as-Input Processes • Mood-as-Input as a Mechanism for Acquisition of Perseverative Activities • Mood-as-Input as a Transdiagnostic Process • Mood & Stop Rule Awareness Interventions

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