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- Metacognitive monitoring is about understanding and checking how well you're thinking and learning to reach a goal, and it’s really important for people who are trying to control their drug cravings.
- This study looked at how methamphetamine (MA) users struggle with metacognitive monitoring and found that their drug cravings make it harder for them to know how well they're doing.
- It showed that MA users didn't monitor their thinking as well as non-users, often thinking they were doing better than they actually were, and the stronger their cravings were, the worse they were at it.
Article Abstract
Background And Objective: Metacognitive monitoring refers to the process in which an individual analyzes their own mental state, then monitors and adjusts cognitive activities to achieve a predetermined goal. Recent research has suggested a strong link between metacognition and drug cravings. Conversely, few studies on the impact of metacognitive monitoring on methamphetamine (MA) cravings exist. Thus, this study investigated whether drug cravings would impair MA abusers' metacognitive monitoring and explored the prediction effects of drug cravings.
Method: Seventy MA abusers from the Zhejiang Compulsory Isolation Drug Rehabilitation Center and 65 non-users from the Wenzhou Medical University were recruited for this experimental study. The judgment of learning (JOL) paradigm was used to examine metacognitive monitoring, and cue-induced pictures were used to induce MA abusers' drug cravings. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), partial correlation, and regression analysis were performed.
Results: Compared with non-users, MA abusers had significantly poorer metacognitive monitoring and tended to overestimate their performance. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between the accuracy of JOLs and drug cravings, which indicated that metacognitive monitoring was weakened by drug cravings with higher cravings imposing more severe impacts. In addition, the regression analysis suggested that drug cravings can predict metacognitive monitoring.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107341 | DOI Listing |
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