%0 Journal Article
%T Sensory and affective components of symptom perception:  A psychometric approach
%A Filip Raes
%A Ilse Van Diest
%A Marta Walentynowicz
%A Michael Witth£¿ft
%A Omer Van den Bergh
%J Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
%@ 2043-8087
%D 2018
%R 10.5127/jep.059716
%X Psychological accounts of symptom perception put forward that symptom experiences consist of sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components. This division is also suggested by psychometric studies investigating the latent structure of symptom reporting. To corroborate the view that the general and symptom-specific factors of a bifactor model represent affective and sensory components, respectively, we performed bifactor models applying confirmatory factor analytic approaches to the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 and the Checklist for Symptoms in Daily Life completed by 1053 undergraduate students. Additionally, we explored the association of latent factors with negative affectivity (NA). For both questionnaires, a bifactor model with one general and several symptom-specific factors revealed the best fit to the data. NA yielded large associations with the general factor, but smaller ones with somatic symptom-specific factors in both questionnaires. The observed latent structure supports a distinction between sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components, and the association between the NA and the general factor confirms the affective tone of the latter
%K Bifactor model
%K Confirmatory factor analysis
%K Negative affectivity
%K Symptom perception
%K Symptom reporting
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.5127/jep.059716