Dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs mediate the relation between temperament traits and hallucination-proneness in non-clinical population

Łukasz Gawęda , Ewelina Cichoń , Remigiusz Szczepanowski

Abstract

We investigated whether dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs (negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of thoughts) mediate the relationship between temperamental characteristics of behavior and hallucinatory-like experiences in healthy subjects (n¼137). Our analyses showed that four tem-peramental traits (emotional reactivity, perseveration, endurance and briskness) were mediated by ne-gative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of thoughts in relation to hallucination proneness. Our research tentatively suggests that temperament affects hallucination proneness via metacognition.