Yetişkinlerde Sağlık Kaygısı İle İlişkili Değişkenlerin Bilişsel Davranışçı Model Kapsamında İncelemesi

Abstract

One of the important factors which are related to health status is health anxiety. Health anxiety affects people’s many behaviors and impairs quality of life. Likewise, it is affected by various factors. This study aimed to investigate the relationships among anxiety sensitivity, health-related dysfunctional beliefs, alexithymia, health anxiety, abnormal illness behaviors and quality of life within the scope of the cognitive behavioral model (CBM) and the related literature. In this study, with 503 participants (301 women, 202 men, Mage = 25.88), data were collected via Sociodemographic Information Form, Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3, Health Cognitions Questionnaire, The Twenty-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Health Anxiety Inventory-Short Version, Scale for the Assessment of Illness Behaviour and World Health Organization BREF Quality of Life Assessment and analyzed with correlation and path analysis. Anxiety sensitivity and health-related dysfunctional beliefs predicted health anxiety, and health anxiety predicted abnormal illness behaviors and quality of life. Moreover, anxiety sensitivity predicted abnormal illness behaviors and quality of life. Health anxiety partially mediated the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and abnormal illness behaviors; and fully mediated the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and quality of life. Alexithymia directly predicted quality of life. Findings were consistent with CBM and they were discussed within the scope of the literature.