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doi/ Discussion The aim of this study was to Abstract. Based on the principle diagnosis criteria of hypochondriasis in DSM IV, the scale consists ofitems indimensions: disease phobia, somatic preoccupation and disease conviction (Pilowsky,) One commonly used health anxiety measure is the Whiteley Index (WI; Pilowsky,). It also briefly touches on the possibility of dimensional measurement by the clinician The Whiteley Index (WI) is a “classic” scale of hypochondria, which was first developed by Pilowsky in the s. The WI was developed by administeringdichotomous response (true or false) items, derived from the most frequent professional-reported definitions of hypochondriasis and from theoretically important concepts, to psychiatric patients with hypochondriasis Three of the most reliable and used self-report measures of health anxiety are the Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI), the Illness Attitude Scales (IAS) and the Whiteley Index (WI). Several studies explored the structural validity of the WI obtaining contrary results concerning the number of factors as well as the item composition However, information about its use on somatic symptom ZIS ist ein Open Access Repositorium für sozial und verhaltenswissenschaftliche Erhebungsinstrumente (Fragebogen, Tests, Items, Skala, Index) von GESIS – Leibniz Missing: pdfThe chapter presents three well-established self-rated dimensional measures of health anxiety: the Health Anxiety Inventory, the Illness Attitude Scales, and the Whiteley Index. Identifying the optimal cut-offs for classification of presence of a diagnosis of severe health anxiety on these measures has several advantages in clinical and The Whiteley Index (WI) is a widely used instrument for measuring hypochondriacal worries and beliefs. Measuring health anxiety: Moving past the dichotomous response option of the original Whiteley Index (PDF) Measuring health anxiety: Moving past the dichotomous Tags ROC-curve for the Whiteley Index and sensitivity/specificity as a function of probability cut-off. The WhiteleyScale (Fink et al.,) was developed to be a screening instrument for somatization illness/hypochondriacal traits. The internal validity of the Background: The Whiteley Index(WI-7) is fre-quently used for evaluating patients with suspected hypochondriasis.