Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10469053 | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A substantial percentage of adolescents experience significant concerns about health. Excessive illness fears are associated with less healthy behaviors. A thorough assessment of illness-related concerns may be crucial for the prevention of both the development of more structured forms of abnormal illness behavior (e.g., severe health anxiety) and the engagement in some unhealthy lifestyles in adolescents. However, it may also be that unhealthy behaviors lead to increased preoccupation with one's own health through adolescents' implicit knowledge about possible consequences of such behaviors.
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Authors
Laura Sirri, Maria Grazia Ricci Garotti, Silvana Grandi, Eliana Tossani,