Using the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation to Understand the Relationship Between Symptom Reporting and Trait Negative Affect

Lisa M. McAndrew; Pablo A. Mora; Karen S. Quigley; Elaine A. Leventhal; Howard Leventhal

doi:10.1007/s12529-013-9372-4

Using the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation to Understand the Relationship Between Symptom Reporting and Trait Negative Affect

Lisa M. McAndrew, Pablo A. Mora, Karen S. Quigley, Elaine A. Leventhal, Howard Leventhal

School of Arts and Sciences, Psychology

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Abstract

Background/Purpose: Based on the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation, we examined if the relationship of trait NA to physical symptom reporting was moderated by life events and illness representations.

Methods: This relationship was examined using a cross-sectional dataset of 554 elderly adults.

Results: A significant three-way interaction demonstrated that individuals who reported the greatest severity of physical symptoms were higher in trait NA, and reported more life events and a chronic illness history.

Conclusions: The results of this study are consistent with the hypothesis that individual high on trait NA who have a history of a chronic illness have illness representations with both disease specific physical symptoms and symptoms from other causes, such as emotional distress. This may complicate the care of medical conditions for these patients.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	989-994
Number of pages	6
Journal	International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Volume	21
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-013-9372-4
State	Published - Nov 25 2014

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Applied Psychology

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Common sense model
Illness representation
Negative affect
Symptom

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