Perceptual and memory biases for health-related information in hypochondriacal individuals

被引：36

作者：

Brown, HD

Kosslyn, SM

Delamater, B

Fama, J

Barsky, AJ

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[2] Brigham & Womens Hosp, Div Psychiat, Boston, MA 02115 USA

[3] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH | 1999年 / 47卷 / 01期

关键词：

explicit memory bias; hypochondriasis; information processing; perceptual bias; social class;

D O I：

10.1016/S0022-3999(99)00011-2

中图分类号：

R749 [精神病学];

学科分类号：

100205 ;

摘要：

Problematic health concerns characteristic of hypochondriasis may be better understood with the aid of cognitive, information processing theories. We investigated whether hypochondriacal individuals show perceptual: and explicit memory biases favoring health-related information. A clinical sample of hypochondriacs (n=18) and healthy controls (n=22), and a sample of hypochondriacal (n=22) and nonhypochondriacal (n=67) patients referred for Holter monitoring. completed a computerized test of perceiving difficult-to-read words and then an encoding task followed by recall of those words. Contrary to our prediction:, hypochondriacal individuals in the clinical sample did not perceive more health-related words than words not related to health. Hypochondriacal individuals in the Holter-monitoring sample showed: an unexpected bias against reporting health-related words;. Social class may account for some of the group differences in this sample. Hypochondriacal individuals in both samples showed better memory for health-related than nonhealth words. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.

引用

页码：67 / 78

页数：12

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