On the relation between interoceptive attention and health anxiety: Distinguishing adaptive and maladaptive bodily awareness

IF 1.6 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Cogent Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI:10.1080/23311908.2023.2262855

Dominic A. Trevisan, Sherab Tsheringla, James C. McPartland

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Abstract

The objectives of this study were to (1) demonstrate differences in the most common measures of interoceptive attention based on correlations with theoretically relevant emotional constructs, and (2) explore the interoceptive mechanisms contributing to health anxiety. Participants were 327 adults from the general population who completed a series of questionnaires on an online survey tool called Qualtrics. Associations among variables were ana-lyzed using simple correlations and a hierarchical multiple regression. The two most common measures of interoceptive attention were statistically unrelated to each other and had opposite patterns of relationships with measures of worry, health anxiety, and alexithymia. Results from a regression analysis suggest that an interoceptive profile of “high interoceptive attention” and “low interoceptive accuracy” is most predictive of health anxiety. Results suggest that there are “adaptive” and “maladaptive” forms of interoceptive attention that are captured by different measures of interoceptive attention. Researchers should choose measures of interoceptive attention carefully based on their own unique research needs. Findings about the interoceptive correlates of health anxiety may have implications for treatment of illness anxiety disorder.

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内感受性注意与健康焦虑的关系:适应性和非适应性身体意识的区分

本研究的目的是:(1)基于与理论相关的情绪构念的相关性，证明最常见的内感受注意测量的差异;(2)探索导致健康焦虑的内感受机制。参与者是来自普通人群的327名成年人，他们通过一个名为Qualtrics的在线调查工具完成了一系列问卷调查。使用简单相关性和分层多元回归分析变量之间的关联。两种最常见的内感受性注意测量在统计上彼此无关，并且与担忧、健康焦虑和述情障碍的测量具有相反的关系模式。回归分析结果表明，“高内感受注意力”和“低内感受准确性”的内感受特征最能预测健康焦虑。结果表明，不同的内感受性注意测量方法可以捕捉到“适应性”和“不适应”的内感受性注意形式。研究者应根据自身独特的研究需要，谨慎选择内感受性注意的测量方法。关于健康焦虑的内感受相关的发现可能对疾病焦虑障碍的治疗有启示。

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Cogent Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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