Feeling your body or feeling badly evidence for the limited validity of the somatosensory amplification scale as an index of somatic sensitivity

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 387-394

  Aronson, Keith R ^a,c   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^b   Quigley, Karen S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heartbeat detection; Interoception; Negative emotionality; Somatic sensitivity; Somatization; Somatosensory amplification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY AMPLIFICATION SCALE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BODY IMAGE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034928485     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(01)00216-1     Document Type: Article

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