@article{ref1,
title="Attentional correlates of illness anxiety in a non-clinical sample",
journal="Psychotherapy and psychosomatics",
year="1999",
author="Vervaeke, G. A. and Bouman, T. K. and Valmaggia, L. R.",
volume="68",
number="1",
pages="22-25",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Attentional processes are assumed to play an important role in the maintenance of illness anxiety, although empirical support is relatively scarce. METHODS: The present study explores the relationship between selective attention (i.e. private body consciousness and symptom reporting), intensive concentration (i.e. attentional control and sustained attention), and illness anxiety in 57 non-clinical subjects. RESULTS: Zero-order and multiple correlations suggest that illness anxiety is significantly related to cognitive failures in everyday life and private body consciousness and to a lesser extent to symptom reporting. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that illness anxiety can be partly predicted from specific attentional variables. However, specific operationalizations of attentional parameters seems to determine the existence and magnitude of these relations.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-3190",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}