Students With High Metacognition Are Favourable Towards Individualism When Anxious
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2022
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Abstract
Metacognitive ability has been described as an important predictor of several processes
involved in learning, including problem-solving. Although this relationship is fairly
documented, little is known about the mechanisms that could modulate it. Given its
relationship with both constructs, we decided to evaluate the impact of self-knowledge
on PS. In addition, we inspected whether emotional (self-reported anxiety) and interpersonal
(attitudes towards social interdependence) variables could affect the relationship between
metacognition and problem-solving. We tested a sample of 32 undergraduate students
and used behavioural tasks and self-report questionnaires. Contrary to the literature,
we found no significant relationship between metacognition and problem-solving
performance, nor a significant moderating effect when including emotional and interpersonal
variables in the model. In contrast, we observed a significant moderating model combining
metacognition, self-reported anxiety and attitudes towards social interdependence. It was
found that participants with high metacognition reported attitudes unfavourable towards
interdependence when they felt high anxiety. These results suggest that already anxious
individuals with high metacognition would prefer to work alone rather than with others,
as a coping mechanism against further anxiety derived from cooperation. We hypothesise
that in anxiogenic contexts, metacognition is used as a tool to compare possible threats
with one’s own skills and act accordingly, in order to maximise one’s own performance.
Further studies are needed to understand how metacognition works in contexts adverse
to learning.
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Barrientos MS, Valenzuela P, Hojman V and Reyes G (2022) Students With High Metacognition Are Favourable Towards Individualism When Anxious. Front. Psychol. 13:910132. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.910132
Keywords
Metacognition, Problem-solving, Social interdependence, Anxiety, Virtual classroom