Health anxiety and emotion regulation in children and adolescents: is there a relationship?

Reiser, Sarah J.; Oliver, Amanda; Power, Hilary A.; Wright, Kristi D.

doi:10.1080/02739615.2019.1629297

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“…Health anxiety symptoms has further been found correlated with quite specific types of anxiety phenomena like phobia of vomiting (Wu et al, 2017) and food neophobia (Selles et al, 2021) in youth. Also, an association between health anxiety and anxiety sensitivity has been demonstrated by recent studies (Reiser, Oliver, Power, & Wright, 2020;Wright et al, 2016) in line with the strong connection between worry, intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety disorders in general in children and adolescents (Osmana gao glu, Creswell, & Dodd, 2018). In sum, the possible distinct characteristics as well as similarities between primary health anxiety and other types of anxiety disorders, including GAD, are yet to be explored in more detail in younger age groups.…”

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Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences

Rask,

Duholm,

Poulsen

et al. 2023

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Health anxiety involves excessive worries about one's health along with beliefs one has an illness or may contract a serious disease. Concerning evidence suggests that health anxiety is on the rise in society, possibly further fueled by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Recent classification systems acknowledge that impairing health‐related worries and beliefs can emerge in early childhood with significant levels of symptoms persisting throughout childhood, and possibly continuous with diagnostic considerations in adulthood. This narrative review summarizes recent research advances in health anxiety in children and adolescents, focusing on various developmental aspects of health anxiety and related concepts in youths. Findings suggest that health anxiety symptoms in young age groups are associated with impairment, distress, and increased healthcare use, as well as substantial comorbidity with mainly other emotional problems and disorders. Furthermore, longitudinal studies suggest that childhood health anxiety can persist across adolescence, perhaps with links to chronic courses in adulthood. The growing literature was further reviewed, thus extending our understanding of early risk factors, including the potential role of exposure to serious illness and transgenerational transmission of health anxiety. Learning more about developmental trajectories will be highly relevant to inform strategies for early detection and prevention. While modified cognitive behavioral therapies in adults are successful in treating health anxiety, specific interventions have not yet been tested in youths. Given substantial overlaps with other psychopathology, it could be important to develop and explore more transdiagnostic and scalable approaches that take advantage of common factors in psychotherapy, while also including a wider perspective on potential familiar maladaptive illness cognitions and behaviors.

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Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences

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Duholm,

Poulsen

et al. 2023

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Martin and Gitzen (26) showed that adults with somatic symptom disorder compared with a healthy control group used maladaptive emotion regulation strategies more than adaptive emotion regulation strategies. Their research findings show that in adults with health anxiety, the use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies is attenuated (26)(27)(28). Studies have shown that emotion regulation effectively reduces stress, anxiety, and depression by changing emotional and cognitive processes (29).…”

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Prediction of Health Anxiety Based on Spiritual Well-being and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During COVID-19 in Iranian Individuals

Dehghanizadeh

Allame

Eydi-Baygi

2021

Ann Mil Health Sci Res

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Background: Epidemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and quarantine implementation have had various effects on the psychological aspects of society. One of the psychological effects of COVID-19 is the fear of getting the disease. Objectives: The present study aimed to predict health anxiety based on spiritual well-being and cognitive emotion regulation strategies during COVID-19 in Iranian individuals. Methods: The present descriptive-correlational study was conducted on the statistical population of all 19-to-79-year-old individuals participating in the study online. A total of 545 subjects were selected by the convenience sampling method. These participants completed short-form health anxiety questionnaires, spiritual well-being scales, and short-form emotion regulation strategies online. The data were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis using SPSS software (version 23). Results: The results showed that health anxiety had a significant negative relationship with spiritual well-being (r = -0.339**) and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r = -0.308**). Furthermore, health anxiety had a significant positive relationship with maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r = 0.390**). Overall, the aforementioned three variables explained 26.1% of changes in health anxiety. Conclusions: The results of the present study showed the impacts of spiritual well-being and cognitive emotion regulation strategies on health anxiety. Therefore, it is recommended that training based on spiritual teachings and emotion regulation strategies reduces health anxiety during the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Health Anxiety and Emotion Regulation During the Period of Covid-19 Outbreak in Turkey

Canlı

Karaşar

2020

Psychiat Danub

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Health anxiety and emotion regulation in children and adolescents: is there a relationship?

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences

Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences

Prediction of Health Anxiety Based on Spiritual Well-being and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During COVID-19 in Iranian Individuals

Health Anxiety and Emotion Regulation During the Period of Covid-19 Outbreak in Turkey

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