ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2015
Clinical and evoked pain, personality traits, and emotional states: can familial confounding explain the associations?
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- Understanding Monitoring Technologies for Adults With Pain: Systematic Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
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- Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander College Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Are We Any Closer to Understanding How Chronic Pain Develops? A Systematic Search and Critical Narrative Review of Existing Chronic Pain Vulnerability Models.Journal of pain research · 2023Review
- Machine-learned identification of psychological subgroups with relation to pain interference in patients after breast cancer treatments.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2020Article
- Familial Contributions to Self-Reported Sleep and Pain in Female Twins.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesPain is a complex phenomenon influenced by context and person-specific factors. Affective dimensions of pain involve both enduring personality traits and fleeting emotional states. We examined how personality traits and emotional states are linked with clinical and evoked pain in a twin sample.
methods99 female twin pairs were evaluated for clinical and evoked pain using the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) and dolorimetry, and completed the 120-item International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), and ratings of stress and mood. Using a co-twin control design we examined a) the relationship of personality traits and emotional states with clinical and evoked pain and b) whether genetics and common environment (i.e. familial factors) may account for the associations.
resultsNeuroticism was associated with the sensory component of the MPQ; this relationship was not confounded by familial factors. None of the emotional state measures was associated with the MPQ. PANAS negative affect was associated with lower evoked pressure pain threshold and tolerance; these associations were confounded by familial factors. There were no associations between IPIP traits and evoked pain.
conclusionsA relationship exists between neuroticism and clinical pain that is not confounded by familial factors. There is no similar relationship between negative emotional states and clinical pain. In contrast, the relationship between negative emotional states and evoked pain is strong while the relationship with enduring personality traits is weak. The relationship between negative emotional states and evoked pain appears to be non-causal and due to familial factors.
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