The many faces of somatosensory amplification

The relative contribution of body awareness, symptom labeling, and anxiety

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4229016
AutoresFerenc Köteles (0000-0001-5460-5759, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Bettina K Doering (0000-0003-0199-8362, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)
Ano2016
Volume21
Fascículo12
Páginas2903-2911
Data de publicação2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105315588216
PMID26060240
OpenAlexW1204433881
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas45

The questionnaire study aimed to evaluate the relative contribution of body awareness, subjective symptoms, and anxiety to the construct of somatosensory amplification in both healthy controls ( n = 475) and patients visiting their general practitioner ( n = 236). Regression analysis explained 52.0 percent of total variance of the somatosensory amplification scale scores. Body awareness was the most influential predictor ( β = 0.489, p < 0.001) when considering all predictors simultaneously. The results suggest that dispositional interoceptive focus, as indicated by body awareness, may be an important aspect of somatosensory amplification, over and above dispositional anxiety or subjective symptom report

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