Psychometric Properties of the Positive Meta-Cognitions and Meta-Emotions Questionnaire in Iranian athletes

Background: meta-cognition refers to self-knowledge, control and monitoring of one’s thinking and emotional processes, such a meta-cognition, and meta-emotion which is consisted of: a) confidence in extinguishing perseverative thoughts and emotions; b) confidence in interpreting own emotions as cues, restraining from immediate reaction and mind-setting for problem-solving; c) confidence in setting flexible and feasible hierarchies of goals. this study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the positive metacognitions and positive meta-emotions questionnaire (pmceq) in athletes. methods: the sample consisted of 307 men and women athletes of 8 sport clubs in jahrom city which were selected by cluster random sampling. the factor analyses showed the presence of a three-dimensional structure of pmceq which determine 47.24% of total variance explained of metacognition. results: the positive meta-cognition differences were found based on gender, age, duration, and types of physical activities. there were significant correlations between pmceq and metacognition questionnaire-30, sport self-regulation, and goal orientation questionnaires. data were indicative of the acceptable level of cronbach’s alpha (0.83) and split-half (0.86) reliability coefficients of positive meta-cognition and meta-emotion questionnaire totally. conclusion: the results of the present study indicated substantial adequacy of this questionnaire to measure positive meta-cognition and meta-emotion in the domain of sport and physical activities.