title: Family background of modern health worries, somatosensory amplification, and health anxiety: A questionnaire study.
abstract: In the development of somatosensory amplification, health anxiety, and modern health worries, environmental factors seem more important than genetic background. Parental attitudes might represent a major source of learning. In total, 186 adolescents and their parents completed a questionnaire assessing modern health worries, somatosensory amplification, health anxiety, and somatic symptoms. Adolescents' modern health worries, somatosensory amplification, and health anxiety were positively related to respective parental characteristics in regression analyses even after controlling for sociodemographic variables and somatic symptoms. Parental beliefs may play a role in the development of these characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary koteles.ferenc@ppk.elte.hu.
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Köteles
authors.affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
authors.forename: Anett
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Freyler
authors.affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
authors.forename: Gyöngyi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kökönyei
authors.affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
authors.forename: György
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bárdos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D006998:Hypochondriasis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adolescence; anxiety; family; physical symptoms; psychological distress