ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

Advances in Psychological Science ›› 2015, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (5): 849-857.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2015.00849

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Psychosomatic Mechanism of Somatization and the Effects of Culture

CHEN Zichen; WANG Xinjian   

  1. (Department of Social Psychology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China)
  • Received:2014-06-27 Online:2015-05-15 Published:2015-05-15
  • Contact: WANG Xinjian, E-mail: wangxj @nankai.edu.cn

Abstract:

Current researches of pathological mechanism of somatization focus on psychosomatic interactions based on neural biology. In a psycho-physiological functional continuum, the presentation of somatic symptoms comes from the process of cognitive learning, attention, memory, sensations monitor and so on. Through those processes, culture can shape the individual’s attribution and interpretation of the symptoms, therefore can affect the presentation and expand of somatic symptoms, and finally form cultural specific hypochondria and medically unexplained symptoms through the ethno-physiology modes of different cultures.

Key words: somatization, culture, mental illness