Self-focused attention and the relationship between hypochondriac symptomatology and the perception of hypothetical symptoms of influenza

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Psychology - Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology, Prevention, grade: 1,3, University of Derby (Institut für Psychologie), language: English, abstract: This study tested the hypothesis that people scoring highly on hypocondriasis (measured by the Illness Attitude Scale; Kellner, 1986), perceive it most intensely (measured by the Revised Illness Per...