title: Predicting illness behavior: health anxiety mediated by locus of control.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the role of 3 dimensions of Health Locus of Control (HLOC) on the relationship between health anxiety and illness behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional survey study of 202 college women. Path analysis and bootstrapping techniques were used to test the significance of mediated models.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The indirect effect of Powerful Others HLOC was significant (β = .06, p < .001), and together health anxiety and Powerful Others HLOC explained 27% of the variance in illness behavior.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Health anxiety and illness behavior are common problems in college women, and that Powerful Others HLOC is a key mechanism underlying the relationship between health anxiety and illness behavior.
authors.affiliation: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA. skidmore@spu.edu.
authors.forename: Jay R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Skidmore
authors.affiliation: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Sara J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Dyson
authors.affiliation: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Amy E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Kupper
authors.affiliation: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Dena
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Calabrese
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D055809:Illness Behavior; D007389:Internal-External Control; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011209:Power, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult