title: Modern health worries, subjective somatic symptoms, somatosensory amplification, and health anxiety in adolescents.
abstract: The cross-sectional study aimed at the psychometric evaluation of the Modern Health Worries Scale in adolescents and the exploration of the relationship among modern health worries, somatosensory amplification, health anxiety, and somatic symptoms. A total of 480 secondary school students (aged between 14 and 19 years) completed a set of questionnaires. Four-factor structure of the scale was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Modern health worries were connected to somatosensory amplification and health anxiety, and somatosensory amplification and health anxiety were partial mediators of the connection between modern health worries and somatic symptoms. Perceived vulnerability (conceptualized as somatosensory amplification and health anxiety) appears to build a "social-cognitive-emotional bridge" between symptoms and modern health worries.
authors.affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
authors.forename: Anett
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Freyler
authors.forename: Zita
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kohegyi
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Köteles
authors.forename: Gyöngyi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kökönyei
authors.forename: György
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bárdos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D020886:Somatosensory Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adolescence; anxiety; physical symptoms; psychological distress; well-being