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Article: Specificity of Childhood Learning Experiences in Relation to Anxiety Sensitivity and Illness/Injury Sensitivity: Implications for Health Anxiety and Pain
- Article from:
- Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Health anxiety refers to the preoccupation with and fear of bodily sensations arising from catastrophic misinterpretations about the significance of these sensations (Hadjistavropoulos, Asmundson, & Kowalyk, 2004). Constructs theoretically relevant to the development of both health anxiety and chronic pain are two of the putative "fundamental fears" identified by Reiss (1991)-anxiety sensitivity (AS) and illness/injury sensitivity (IS) (Cox, Borger, & Enns, 1999; Vancleef, Peters, Roelofs, & Asmundson, 2006). The learning history origins of AS have been examined in a series of studies (Stewart et al., 2001; Watt & Stewart, 2000; Watt, Stewart, & Cox, 1998); however, no ...