TY - JOUR
AU - Ronchi, Roberta
AB - Measuring implicit associations of self-concept with health or illness attributes may offer valuable insight into the mechanisms entailing the perception of one’s own health, as explicit measures of self-reported health are usually influenced by social desirability or response bias. In this study, healthy participants performed a modified version of the implicit association test (IAT) investigating implicit associations between the self and either health or illness related representations. Behaviorally, implicit associations dominated for self-health pairing, and their strength was inversely correlated with depressive traits. Neurally, concomitant EEG recording showed significant modulations of the P1, LPP, and N4 components evoked by such pairings, suggesting a facilitation of sensory responses to self-related stimuli and differential emotional processes engaged to integrate health versus illness information into self-related representations. These data offer new clues to better understand the cognitive and affective mechanisms underlying unrealistic optimism and pathological awareness of health conditions in various clinical populations.
TI - I don’t feel sick: Cognitive and affective processing of self-health associations using the Implicit Association Test
JF - Journal of Health Psychology
DO - 10.1177/13591053241233509
DA - 2025-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/i-don-t-feel-sick-cognitive-and-affective-processing-of-self-health-hgnR7EiDh0
SP - 3
EP - 16
VL - 30
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -