Prediction of the Amount of Worrying Based on Meta-Cognitive Beliefs and Rumination in Students

Worrying is one of the anxiety disorders that influences a person's functioning in different areas of education, employment and society. The purpose of this study was to predict the level of worrying based on rumination and meta-cognitive beliefs in students of Kurdistan University.
In this research, which was done with the correlation method, 143 students were selected and subjected to the study by means of random cluster sampling. Three questionnaires regarding rumination, meta-cognitive beliefs and worrying were used as means of data collection. In this research, rumination and meta-cognitive beliefs were considered as predictors and worrying was considered a dependent variable. The data were analyzed by R Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions analyzes.
The results of the study revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between rumination and worrying (P Rumination and metacognitive beliefs are correlative with student's level of worrying, therefore therapists and counselors should concentrate on reducing people’s level of worrying, reducing rumination and metacognitive beliefs.