Table 6. Stepwise linear regression of the 5 factors of the MCQ-Af27 plus age and gender on total anxiety scores, N = 197.

	Stepwise Regression
	b	*R2(%)	t(190)	p
MCneg-Q2	.55	31.19%	7.96	< .001
MCpos	.11	2.55%	1.93	.007
Gender	-.11	1.58%	-1.77	.029
Age	-.15	1.51%	-2.56	.035
Confidence-Q14	.11	1.30%	2.00	.047
Control	.10	0.8%	1.67	.096
Conscience-Q12	-	-	-	-

MCpos = positive metacognitive beliefs; MCneg = negative metacognitive beliefs. Gender code 0 = boys, gender code 1 = girls.

*R² = adjusted R²