Πλοήγηση ανά Συγγραφέα "Leonidou, Chrysanthi"
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Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety
Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria; Leonidou, Chrysanthi (2017)To-date no models adequately address the higher vulnerability of women to anxiety pathology, in contrast to other disorders, such as depression where ruminative thinking has been identified as accounting for women's greater ...
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Coping with psychosomatic symptoms: The buffering role of psychological flexibility and impact on quality of life
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia; Bati, Aspasia; Karekla, Maria (2019)Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms
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Coping with psychosomatic symptoms: The buffering role of psychological flexibility and impact on quality of life
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia; Bati, Aspasia; Karekla, Maria (Sage Publications, 2016)Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms; psychological flexibility was expected to moderate this ...
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The counteractive aspects of distraction away from illness-related information: Associations with less reappraisal and more beliefs about having an illness despite medical reassurance
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia (2019)
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Do alexithymic individuals avoid their feelings? Experiential avoidance mediates the association between alexithymia, psychosomatic, and depressive symptoms in a community and a clinical sample
Panayiotou, Georgia; Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Constantinou, Elena; Hart, J.; Rinehart, K. L.; Sy, J. T.; Björgvinsson, T. (2015)Objective Alexithymia is defined as the trait associated with difficulty in identifying and describing feelings as well as poor fantasy and imagery. While alexithymia is related to psychopathology in general, it has been ...
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Factors associated with clinical levels of somatization and hypochondriasis: The role of anxiety and panic symptoms.
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia; Bati, Aspasia; Karekla, Maria (2014)
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How do illness-anxious individuals process health-threatening information? A systematic review of evidence for the cognitive-behavioral model
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia (2018)According to the cognitive-behavioral model, illness anxiety is developed and maintained through biased processing of health-threatening information and maladaptive responses to such information. OBJECTIVE: This study is ...
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Conference Object
Illeness-related imagery under the influence of attention to somatic sensations: we all respond the same, regardless of ilness anxiety levels
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia (Wiley, 2018)
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Book Chapter
Maintaining Mechanisms of Health Anxiety: Current State of Knowledge
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia (Springer International Publishing, 2018)Severe health anxiety is the preoccupation that one has or will acquire a severe medical disease and impairs individual’s functioning in the psychological, social, professional, and other domains of daily life. This chapter ...
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Self-Awareness in alexithymia and associations with social anxiety
Panayiotou, Georgia; Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Constantinou, Elena; Michaelides, Michalis P. (2018)
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Smoking Consequences Questionnaire: Factor Structure and Invariance among Smokers and Non-Smokers
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Charalambous, Elena; Michaelides, Michalis P.; Panayiotou, Georgia (2019)The Smoking Consequences Questionnaire was developed to assess smoking expectancies, which have been found to be linked to the initiation and maintenance of smoking. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the current study was to ...