TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Attentional correlates of illness anxiety in a non-clinical sample
JO  - Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
A1  - Vervaeke, G. A.
A1  - Bouman, T. K.
A1  - Valmaggia, L. R.
SP  - 22
EP  - 25
VL  - 68
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-3190
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -