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BACKGROUND:Causal attributions about bodily sensations may determine help-seeking and influence patients' demands for medical treatment. The present study aimed to differentiate the causal attributions associated with health-related and non-health-related anxiety. METHODS:Anxious hypochondriacal, generally anxious, and non-anxious general practice attenders were compared on their propensity to give somatic, psychological or normalizing attributions for common bodily sensations, measured by number of each type of attribution in a given time period and the frequency of first response of each type. RESULTS:The groups differed in all three types of attributions. Giving more psychological and fewer normalizing attributions was related to general anxiety whereas giving more somatic attributions was related specifically to hypochondriasis. CONCLUSIONS:Anxiety and hypochondriasis can be distinguished in terms of their associated patterns of attributions for bodily sensations, reinforcing the importance of attributional processes and interventions which use reattributional training.
journal_name
Psychol Medjournal_title
Psychological medicineauthors
MacLeod AK,Haynes C,Sensky Tdoi
10.1017/s0033291797005849subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-01-01 00:00:00pages
225-8issue
1eissn
0033-2917issn
1469-8978journal_volume
28pub_type
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