The study aims to investigate the relationship among modern health worries (MHWs), somatosensory amplification (SSA),health anxiety, and well-being. Questionnaires (Modern Health Worries Scale, Somatosensory Amplification Scale, Short Health Anxiety Inventory, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and WHO-Five Well-being Scale) were completed by 180 patients (mean age = 48.2 ± 15.76 yrs) visiting their general practitioners and by 344 undergraduate students (21.5 ± 2.09 yrs) in a cross-sectional study. According to the results, SSA and health anxiety were independently related to MHWs. Health anxiety was negatively related to indicators of general well-being. MHWs were not associated with well-being and were weakly positively connected to ...
While everyone worries about their health from time to time, excessive worrying is maladaptive. Seve...
Background: Healthcare use is increasing, and health anxiety (HA) is recognized as an important asso...
Rationale: This study investigated if health anxious individuals have chronically aroused illness-re...
Theoretischer Hintergrund: Moderne Gesundheitssorgen (MHW) sind Sorgen über die negative Beeinflussu...
Worries about the negative health effects of modern life (Modern health worries, MHW) have increased...
The cross-sectional study aimed at the psychometric evaluation of the Modern Health Worries Scale i...
Objective: In a previous study in New Zealand, the newly developed Modern Health Worries Scale (MHW)...
Background: Worry about physical health is broadly referred to as health anxiety and can range from ...
Objective: Health anxiety is the fear of being or getting seriously sick due to the misinterpretatio...
Background: Health anxiety (HA) concerns worry of disease, and has mostly been examined in people wi...
Objective: Health anxiety is associated with distress and disability, and overutilization of health ...
Although health anxiety is a rare type of anxiety in adolescents and children, it has a negative imp...
This study sought to evaluate the specificity of health anxiety, relative to other forms of psychopa...
AbstractObjectiveHealth anxiety is associated with distress and disability, and overutilization of h...
Studies exploring functional impairments in health anxiety are almost exclusively cross-sectional, a...
While everyone worries about their health from time to time, excessive worrying is maladaptive. Seve...
Background: Healthcare use is increasing, and health anxiety (HA) is recognized as an important asso...
Rationale: This study investigated if health anxious individuals have chronically aroused illness-re...
Theoretischer Hintergrund: Moderne Gesundheitssorgen (MHW) sind Sorgen über die negative Beeinflussu...
Worries about the negative health effects of modern life (Modern health worries, MHW) have increased...
The cross-sectional study aimed at the psychometric evaluation of the Modern Health Worries Scale i...
Objective: In a previous study in New Zealand, the newly developed Modern Health Worries Scale (MHW)...
Background: Worry about physical health is broadly referred to as health anxiety and can range from ...
Objective: Health anxiety is the fear of being or getting seriously sick due to the misinterpretatio...
Background: Health anxiety (HA) concerns worry of disease, and has mostly been examined in people wi...
Objective: Health anxiety is associated with distress and disability, and overutilization of health ...
Although health anxiety is a rare type of anxiety in adolescents and children, it has a negative imp...
This study sought to evaluate the specificity of health anxiety, relative to other forms of psychopa...
AbstractObjectiveHealth anxiety is associated with distress and disability, and overutilization of h...
Studies exploring functional impairments in health anxiety are almost exclusively cross-sectional, a...
While everyone worries about their health from time to time, excessive worrying is maladaptive. Seve...
Background: Healthcare use is increasing, and health anxiety (HA) is recognized as an important asso...
Rationale: This study investigated if health anxious individuals have chronically aroused illness-re...