Moving toward a metacognitive conceptualization of cyberchondria: Examining the contribution of metacognitive beliefs, beliefs about rituals, and stop signals

Cyberchondria refers to the repeated use of the Internet to search for health information that leads to negative consequences. The present set of studies examined the tenability of a proposed metacognitive conceptualization of cyberchondria that includes metacognitive beliefs about health-related th...

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Main Authors: Fergus, T.A (Author), Spada, M.M (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2018
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