Imagining the future in health anxiety: The impact of rumination on the specificity of illness-related memory and future thinking

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 587-600

  Sansom Daly, Ursula M ^a,b   Bryant, Richard A ^a   Cohn, Richard J ^a,b   Wakefield, Claire E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

autobiographical memory; future thinking; health anxiety; hypochondriasis; rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENT; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENTS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905385739     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2014.880111     Document Type: Article

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