Effective Metacognitive Factors in Students’ Depression

This research is done with the aim of examining effective meta-cognitive factors in students’ depression. The population studied in this research comprises all undergraduate (bachelor-level) students at Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, studying in the academic year 2008-2009. From among them, 35 depressed and 35 ordinary students were selected via the systematic random sampling method. The instrument in this research was Wells’ Meta-cognition Test Depression can be predicted based on the meta-cognitive skills (five skills). The results achieved through administering of Wells’ Meta-cognition Test suggested that the difference in means of depressed and ordinary students in the subscales of positive worrying beliefs, uncontrollability and feeling of danger, cognitive ability, general negative beliefs, cognitive self-awareness and the whole meta-cognition is significant.