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JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 1021-1029Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1359105308097967
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illness perceptions; perceived primal threat; subjective health
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Many theories suggest that a threatening situation impacts health because it affects core needs. Our assumption was that a set of interdependent 'perceived primal threats' to basic human needs (self-preservation, social integration, personal identity and growth, and positive worldview), which result from the presence of a disease, are related to illness perceptions and subjective health. Participants were 121 chronic medical patients. According to the results, perceived primal threat was strongly associated with illness-related perceptions and problems, as well as perceived psychological and overall self-rated health. Also, perceived primal threat mediated the relationship between illness-related factors and subjective health measures.
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