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. 2022 Dec 19:1–11. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-04126-3

Table 2.

Standardized indirect effects with 95% confidence intervals

Model pathways Point estimates Standard error 95% CI z p
Lower Upper
HAI ➔ pessimism ➔ CC .020 .009 .005 .040 2.23 .026
HAI ➔ DER ➔ CE .065 .019 .031 .105 3.47 .001
HAI ➔ DER ➔ CD .058 .017 .026 .094 3.35 .001
HAI ➔ DER ➔ CR .043 .016 .012 .076 2.59 .010
HAI ➔ DER ➔ CC .053 .018 .019 .091 2.88 .004
HAN ➔ pessimism ➔ CC .034 .013 .013 .062 2.72 .006
HAN ➔ DER ➔ CE .046 .015 .020 .078 3.09 .002
HAN ➔ DER ➔ CD .041 .014 .017 .070 3.00 .003
HAN ➔ DER ➔ CR .030 .012 .008 .056 2.41 .016
HAN ➔ DER ➔ CC .037 .014 .013 .068 2.65 .008

HAI Health anxiety: illness likelihood; HAN Health anxiety: negative consequences of illness; DER Difficulties in emotion regulation; CE Cyberchondria: excessiveness; CD Cyberchondria: distress; CR Cyberchondria: reassurance; CC Cyberchondria: compulsion