Parental illness, attachment dimensions, and health beliefs: Testing the cognitive-behavioural and interpersonal models of health anxiety

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 216-228

  Alberts, Nicole M ^a   Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

attachment; cognitive behavioral; health anxiety; hypochondriasis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893765127     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2013.835401     Document Type: Article

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