ArticleJournal of pain research2009
Effects of coping statements on experimental pain in chronic pain patients.
Article in Journal of pain research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The Impact of Pain Coping Strategies on Chronic Pain Among Native Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Correlates of mental defeat in individuals with chronic non-cancer pain on long-term opioid therapy.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Psychiatric Comorbidity and Emotional Dysregulation in Chronic Tension-Type Headache: A Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Pain-Specific Resilience in People Living With HIV and Chronic Pain: Beneficial Associations With Coping Strategies and Catastrophizing.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Encoding of Self-Referential Pain Catastrophizing in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex in Fibromyalgia.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2018Article
- PPARγ Agonists Attenuate Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain.The Clinical journal of pain · 2017Article
- Active pain coping is associated with the response in real-time fMRI neurofeedback during pain.Brain imaging and behavior · 2017Article
- Arm ache.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Review
- The role of positive traits and pain catastrophizing in pain perception.Current pain and headache reports · 2013Review
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Abstract
The present study measured the effects of catastrophizing self-statements and positive coping self-statements on cold pressor-induced pain. Participants were 58 adult chronic pain patients with current facial pain. It was hypothesized that catastrophizing would lead to a decrease in pain endurance whereas positive coping would lead to an increase in pain endurance. It was also hypothesized that catastrophizing would lead to an increase in peak pain intensity whereas positive coping would lead to a decrease in peak pain intensity. At pretest, participants submerged their nondominant hand in the cold pressor. Pain sensitivity ranges (PSR) were subsequently determined by calculating the difference between tolerance and threshold times. Ratings of peak pain intensity were measured using a pressure sensitive bladder/transducer. Participants underwent random assignment to either a catastrophizing group or a positive coping self-statement group. ANCOVA results revealed that on average, participants employing catastrophizing statements as a coping strategy experienced significantly lower PSR (M = 35.53, SD = 39.71) compared to participants employing positive coping self-statements (M = 73.70, SD = 86.14) when controlling for pretest PSR. Group assignment had no significant influence on peak pain intensity ratings. Thus, our results reveal that manipulation of coping causes changes in pain endurance.
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