Health anxiety and the self-concept: a person-centered/experiential study

IF 0.5 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/14779757.2021.1938183

David Blowers, Sheila Haugh

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Person-centered therapy conceptualizes anxiety as occurring when an individual perceives incongruence within themselves, so better understanding the self-concept of anxious individuals can help us understand this incongruence. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three health anxious white British women which were then subjected to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. This produced three master themes. The first, ‘living with health anxiety’, explored the experience of being health anxious: on the one hand identifying as a worrier and on the other hand having reason to be afraid. The second, ‘questioning health anxiety’, demonstrated an aspect of self that wished to transcend the confines of health anxiety by rejecting or interrogating it. The third, ‘anxiety among others’, drew attention to the interpersonal aspects of life with health anxiety. These results are applied to existing person-centered, focusing-oriented and emotion-focused therapy theories. Future research directions are suggested, and clinical implications are given.

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健康焦虑与自我概念:一项以人为中心/经验的研究

以人为本的治疗将焦虑定义为个体感知到自身的不一致性，因此更好地理解焦虑个体的自我概念可以帮助我们理解这种不一致性。对三名健康焦虑的英国白人女性进行了半结构化访谈，然后对她们进行了解释现象学分析。这产生了三个主要主题。第一个是“健康焦虑的生活”，探索了健康焦虑的经历:一方面确定自己是一个担心者，另一方面有理由害怕。第二个，“质疑健康焦虑”，展示了自我的一个方面，希望通过拒绝或质疑健康焦虑来超越它的界限。第三个是“他人之间的焦虑”，让人们注意到生活中人际关系方面的健康焦虑。这些结果适用于现有的以人为中心、聚焦导向和情绪导向的治疗理论。提出了今后的研究方向，并给出了临床意义。

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