Journal article
Childhood antecedents of hypochondriasis
Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), Vol.43(4), pp.282-289
07/2002
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.43.4.282
PMID: 12189253
Abstract
According to the interpersonal model of hypochondriasis, early environmental adversity may give rise to attachment insecurity that finds adult expression in care-seeking behavior. To identify antecedents of this disturbance, we interviewed general medicine patients and obtained from them self-reports of traumatic events, adverse circumstances, and symptoms experienced in childhood. Patients who met DSM-III-R criteria for hypochondriasis more often reported traumatic events and circumstances, including serious illness or injury. Among all patients, the level of hypochondriacal symptoms in adulthood was correlated with poor health, hypochondriacal worry, and separation anxiety in childhood. These findings are consistent with a growing literature that links childhood adversity to adult hypochondriasis; they support the interpersonal model.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Childhood antecedents of hypochondriasis
- Creators
- Russell Noyes Jr - Department of Biostatics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. russell-noyes@uioea.eduScott StuartDouglas R LangbehnRachel L HappelSusan L LongleySteven J Yagla
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), Vol.43(4), pp.282-289
- DOI
- 10.1176/appi.psy.43.4.282
- PMID
- 12189253
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychosomatics
- ISSN
- 0033-3182
- eISSN
- 1545-7206
- Publisher
- England
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984004198802771
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