title: [Self-attention of psychosomatic patients].
abstract: In the present study, based on the theory of objective self-attentiveness, a sample of psychosomatic patients was compared with persons in good health in a control group. It was established that psychosomatic patients had a significantly lower habitual tendency then healthy persons to reflect upon relevant, in particular emotional, self aspects; that they had a considerably higher habitual inclination to reflect upon social appraisals and the fulfilling of social standards; furthermore, they showed a distinctly higher social anxiety and lower self-acceptance. The findings have been discussed on the background of previous findings relating to alexithymia, and to enable the findings to be interpreted a model of a self stabilizing system was proposed.
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Psychologie Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sachse
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rudolph
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Selbstaufmerksamkeit bei psychosomatischen Patienten.