Maladaptive Metacognition, Coping, and Resilience in Diabetic Versus Non-Diabetic Elderly Individuals
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Metacognition denotes people's awareness and regulation of their cognitive processes and behaviours. Maladaptive metacognitive beliefs are characterized by excessive worry, negative beliefs about thoughts, and heightened self-monitoring. It can impair effective coping and reduce adaptive capacity. Understanding its significance in later life is crucial, as compromised metacognition may lead to inappropriate evaluation and reduced psychological functioning. Older people generally face multiple-age related difficulties such as detrimental health, loss of loved ones, and evolving societal responsibilities which put demands on cognitive and emotional regulation. Thus, these dysfunctional metacognitive patterns may heightened stress leading to maladaptive coping and lower resilience. With this background, the current study sought to investigate differences in maladaptive metacognition, coping mechanisms, and resilience among diabetes and non-diabetic elderly individuals. Employing a comparative research design, older persons with and without diabetes were assessed using standardised tools of metacognition, coping strategies, and resilience. The results indicated that older individuals (with diabetes) had markedly higher maladaptive metacognitive beliefs and a stronger dependence on maladaptive coping strategies, including diminished resilience, in comparison to their counterparts. These observations highlight the psychological burden in older individuals with diabetic at one hand and on other, it emphasises the significance of higher-order cognitive vulnerabilities along with coping processes. This study stresses the necessity of integrating metacognitive and coping-oriented interventions within psycho-social care framework to improve resilience in older persons, especially those with diabetes.
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