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Negative Automatic Evaluation and Better Recognition of Bodily Symptom Words in College Students with Elevated Health Anxiety
Schmidt, Erika; Witthoeft, Michael; KORNADT, Anna Elena et al.
2013In Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37 (5), p. 1027-1040
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Abstract :
[en] This study explored whether better recognition of symptom words is associated with stronger negative automatic evaluations of these words. We compared participants with health anxiety (HA; N = 27) to dysphoric (N = 29) and to non-health-anxious and non-dysphoric control participants (N = 28) in the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and in a word recognition task using health-threat-related, negative emotional, and neutral control words. Participants with HA made significantly more mistakes on the IAT than both other groups, in pairing the evaluation "harmless" with specific "symptoms" (p = .02, eta(2) = .10). Additionally, recognition performance was positively related to the IAT evaluation bias. The findings suggest that persons with HA automatically interpret symptoms as being more dangerous than the others saw them. This evaluation bias might explain the facilitation of access to symptom information in working memory that underlies cognitive biases observed in HA.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Schmidt, Erika
Witthoeft, Michael
KORNADT, Anna Elena  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Rist, Fred
Bailer, Josef
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Negative Automatic Evaluation and Better Recognition of Bodily Symptom Words in College Students with Elevated Health Anxiety
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Cognitive Therapy and Research
ISSN :
0147-5916
eISSN :
1573-2819
Volume :
37
Issue :
5
Pages :
1027-1040
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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