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The Development and Validation of the Health Proneness Questionnaire

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This series of studies describes the development, validation and potential use of the Health Proneness Questionnaire (HPQ). Recent health, wellness and illness studies focus upon the dynamic interaction between psychological and physical well-being. This newly developed scale allows practitioners to quickly screen psychological characteristics related to health and a patient's perception of their quality of life. Participants were patients in university research clinics for vision problems. Through exploratory factor analysis three factors evolved related to the hypothesized psychological characteristics involved in health related quality of life: adaptability, self-efficacy and subjective well-being. In a confirmatory factor analysis, the best fit model yielded a higher-order health-proneness factor with the original three categories as sub-factors. Further criterion-related validity comparisons and discriminant and convergent validity studies indicated a psychometrically sound short survey for examining psychological characteristics of patients with mild chronic health conditions.

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Deborah Sweeny, Ph.D., Brian Holden, Ph.D; Renee DuToit, MS Vision Cooperative Research Center, Sydney AU and Des Fonn, Ph.D., University of Waterloo.

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  1. Counseling and Human Development, Academic Programs, Warner School, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA

    Deborah Erickson

  2. Vision Cooperative Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Fiona Stapleton & Emmy Giannokopoulos

  3. Research and Development, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY, USA

    Paul Erickson

  4. Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Clare Wilson

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Erickson, D., Stapleton, F., Erickson, P. et al. The Development and Validation of the Health Proneness Questionnaire. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 13, 411–419 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-006-9040-9

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