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Meta cognitions questionnaire (MCQ)

EZ Elham Zahedian
MB Masoud Bahreini
NG Nezamaddin Ghasemi
KM Kamran Mirzaei
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The MCQ-30 is a short version of the original MCQ measuring individual differences in a selection of meta-cognitive beliefs, and judgments as well as monitoring tendencies considered important in the meta-cognitive model of psychological disorders. The questionnaire is 30-item, 4-point Likert, and self-report scale. The questionnaire has five subscales. The five subscales of the MCQ-30 are: cognitive confidence, positive beliefs in worry, cognitive self-consciousness, negative beliefs in the uncontrollability of thoughts and danger, and beliefs in the need to control thoughts. Subscale scores range from 6 to 24, and total scores range from 30 to 120, with higher scores indicating higher levels of unhelpful metacognitions. Subscales are calculated by summing the following item: lack of cognitive confidence: 8, 14, 17, 24, 26 and 29; positive beliefs in worry: 1, 7, 10, 19, 23 and 28; cognitive self-consciousness: 3, 5, 12, 16, 18 and 30; negative beliefs in uncontrollability and danger: 2, 4, 9, 11, 15 and 21; need to control thoughts: 6, 13, 20, 22, 25 and 27. The MCQ-30 exhibited good internal consistency, convergent validity, and acceptable to good test–retest reliability [28]. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the subscales varied from 0.72 to 0.93. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the total scale in the Iranian sample has been reported as 0.91 [29] (see Additional file 3).

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