السايبركوندريا وعلاقتها باضطراب العرض الجسدي والمعتقدات اللاعقلانية عن الصحة لدى طلاب الجامعة ) دراسة سيكومترية كلينيكية ) (.

Research Summary: The aim of this research is to identify the nature of the relationship between cyberchondria(Search for health information online) and both somatic symptom disorder and irrational beliefs about health, as well as to identify the differences between the gender in cyberchondria, and to predict cyberchondria through the variables of somatic symptom disorder and irrational beliefs about health. The sample of the study consisted of (300) male and female students at the university, and used the following: the cyberchondria scale (prepared by the researcher), the Somatic symptom disorder scale (prepared by the researcher) and the scale of irrational beliefs about health (prepared by the researcher).The results showed that there is a positive correlation between cyberchondria and both Somatic symptom disorder and irrational beliefs about health among university students, and the results showed that there are statistically significant differences between the gender in cyberchondria in favor of females. Cyberchondria can also be predicted by variables of somatic symptom disorder and irrational beliefs about health. Finally, there are fundamental differences between high cyberchondria and low cyberchondria in personality dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]