The relationship between positive psychological characteristics or health anxiety among middle-aged people

Health anxiety is known as one of the branches of anxiety with an individual mental occupation with a serious illness and without medical evidence. Considering the role of positive excitements in well – being of psychological and physical, the present study, is intended to investigate the relationship between positive psychology characteristics with health anxiety among middle - aged people. The method of this study is correlation and the society of it, is middle - aged people with the age range of 38 to 48 in Zanjan, where an accidental cluster sampling method has a number of 225 subjects. Two questionnaires were used to collect data from positive psychology s and health anxiety s characteristics. The results showed that the correlation coefficient between health anxiety with pleasant life is -0.14 % with a commitment life is - 20 % and with meaningful life is - 40 %, all three levels are less meaningful than 0.05 % .Therefore, it can be concluded that whatever people s life have positive psychology characteristics, health anxiety is less in them, in which meaningful life have the highest correlation.

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positive psychology characteristics ، health anxiety ، middle-aged