Sensory and affective components of symptom perception
Psychological accounts of symptom perception put forward that symptom experiences consist of sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components. This division is also suggested by psychometric studies investigating the latent structure of symptom reporting. To corroborate the view that the gen...
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| author | Marta Walentynowicz PhD Michael Witthöft PhD Filip Raes PhD Ilse Van Diest PhD Omer Van den Bergh PhD |
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| description | Psychological accounts of symptom perception put forward that symptom experiences consist of sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components. This division is also suggested by psychometric studies investigating the latent structure of symptom reporting. To corroborate the view that the general and symptom-specific factors of a bifactor model represent affective and sensory components, respectively, we performed bifactor models applying confirmatory factor analytic approaches to the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 and the Checklist for Symptoms in Daily Life completed by 1053 undergraduate students. Additionally, we explored the association of latent factors with negative affectivity (NA). For both questionnaires, a bifactor model with one general and several symptom-specific factors revealed the best fit to the data. NA yielded large associations with the general factor, but smaller ones with somatic symptom-specific factors in both questionnaires. The observed latent structure supports a distinction between sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components, and the association between the NA and the general factor confirms the affective tone of the latter. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e07ee368a2674edf9b41354e0c80e3162022-12-22T02:44:22ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Experimental Psychopathology2043-80872018-06-01910.5127/jep.059716Sensory and affective components of symptom perceptionMarta Walentynowicz PhDMichael Witthöft PhDFilip Raes PhDIlse Van Diest PhDOmer Van den Bergh PhDPsychological accounts of symptom perception put forward that symptom experiences consist of sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components. This division is also suggested by psychometric studies investigating the latent structure of symptom reporting. To corroborate the view that the general and symptom-specific factors of a bifactor model represent affective and sensory components, respectively, we performed bifactor models applying confirmatory factor analytic approaches to the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 and the Checklist for Symptoms in Daily Life completed by 1053 undergraduate students. Additionally, we explored the association of latent factors with negative affectivity (NA). For both questionnaires, a bifactor model with one general and several symptom-specific factors revealed the best fit to the data. NA yielded large associations with the general factor, but smaller ones with somatic symptom-specific factors in both questionnaires. The observed latent structure supports a distinction between sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components, and the association between the NA and the general factor confirms the affective tone of the latter.https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.059716 |
| spellingShingle | Marta Walentynowicz PhD Michael Witthöft PhD Filip Raes PhD Ilse Van Diest PhD Omer Van den Bergh PhD Sensory and affective components of symptom perception Journal of Experimental Psychopathology |
| title | Sensory and affective components of symptom perception |
| title_full | Sensory and affective components of symptom perception |
| title_fullStr | Sensory and affective components of symptom perception |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sensory and affective components of symptom perception |
| title_short | Sensory and affective components of symptom perception |
| title_sort | sensory and affective components of symptom perception |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.059716 |
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