Anxiety sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty as potential risk factors for cyberchondria

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 174, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-69

  Norr, Aaron M ^a   Albanese, Brian J ^a   Oglesby, Mary E ^a   Allan, Nicholas P ^a   Schmidt, Norman B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Cyberchondria; Health anxiety; Intolerance of uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYBERCHONDRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNET; INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; POPULATION RISK; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UNCERTAINTY; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; INFORMATION SEEKING; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84918800363     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.11.023     Document Type: Article

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