Meta-cognition, Decision Making and Working Memory as Mediators Between Coping with Stress Styles and Major Depressive Disorder

Ghazal Zandkarimi; Seyedeh Monavar Yazdi; Zohreh Khosravi

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Meta-cognition, Decision Making and Working Memory as Mediators Between Coping with Stress Styles and Major Depressive Disorder

Ghazal Zandkarimi, Seyedeh Monavar Yazdi, Zohreh Khosravi

Published in International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 1, Issue 1)

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This study aimed to investigate the mediator roles of meta-cognition, decision making and working memory between coping with stress styles and major depressive disorder (MDD). The sample size was 250 participants that filled in five scales to assess MDD, coping with stress styles and executive functions. The model representing the mediation role of meta-cognition, decision making and working memory between coping with stress styles and MDD is fit. The effect of problem focused coping (PFC) on meta-cognition as well as the effect of emotion focused coping (EFC) on working memory was strongly significant. Decision making was an executive function that independently influenced on MDD. Our overall results represented that the main executive functions that strongly influenced the correlation between coping with stress styles and MDD were meta-cognition, working memory and decision making respectively.

Published in	International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijpbs.20160101.11
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Coping with Stress Styles, Decision Making, Executive Functions, Major Depressive Disorder, Meta-cognition & Working Memory

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Ghazal Zandkarimi

Faculty of Educational Sciences & Psychology, Group of Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
Seyedeh Monavar Yazdi

Faculty of Educational Sciences & Psychology, Group of Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
Zohreh Khosravi

Faculty of Educational Sciences & Psychology, Group of Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

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