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  • Title: Brief report: illness uncertainty and dispositional self-focus in adolescents and young adults with childhood-onset asthma.
    Author: Van Pelt JC, Mullins LL, Carpentier MY, Wolfe-Christensen C.
    Journal: J Pediatr Psychol; 2006 Sep; 31(8):840-5. PubMed ID: 16384920.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To investigate differences in self-focused attention between college students with childhood-onset asthma and a group of healthy controls and to determine whether self-focused attention mediates the relationship between illness uncertainty and psychological distress among individuals with asthma. METHODS: Forty-two adolescent and young adult participants with childhood-onset asthma and 40 age- and gender-matched healthy participants completed measures of self-focused attention, perceived illness uncertainty, psychological distress, and health status. RESULTS: Adolescents and young adults with childhood-onset asthma evidenced an increased tendency to engage in private self-focus compared to age- and gender-matched peers without a chronic illness history. Self-focused attention also mediated the relationship between perceived illness uncertainty and psychological distress among those with asthma. CONCLUSIONS: The need for self-monitoring in asthma management may result in an increased propensity to self-focus, which may result in heightened levels of psychological distress.
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