ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Recalled early life adversity and pain: the role of mood, sleep, optimism, and control.
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- The effect of adverse childhood experiences on chronic pain and major depression in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023Pooled it
- Sleep and affect: A conceptual review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of early life adversity on socially learned analgesia and empathy in virtual reality.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Effects of childhood adversity on socially learned placebo analgesia in virtual reality: A cross-sectional study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- The moderating role of early-life parental adverse and positive factors in the genetic and environmental contributions to objectively assessed sleep duration in middle childhood.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2024Article
- Individuals with both higher recent negative affect and physical pain have higher levels of C-reactive protein.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2022Article
- Emotion Regulation as a Pathway Connecting Early Life Adversity and Inflammation in Adulthood: a Conceptual Framework.Adversity and resilience science · 2022Review
- Topical Review: Examining Multidomain Pain Resilience in Late Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2021Article
- How was your day? Convergence of aggregated momentary and retrospective end-of-day affect ratings across the adult life span.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2020Article
- Early parental positive personality and stress: Longitudinal associations with children's sleep.British journal of health psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Early life adversity (ELA) has been associated with pain symptomatology in adulthood, but mechanisms and moderators of these associations are unclear. Using recall based and concurrently assessed self-report data, we examined associations between ELA, mood, sleep, and recent pain intensity and interference, and whether optimism and perceived control weakened these associations in a midlife community sample of diverse adults reporting some ELA. Controlling for demographic variables and BMI, higher levels of ELA were associated with more pain intensity and interference; greater sleep disturbance and negative mood accounted for these associations. When moderation was examined, only the path from sleep disturbance to pain interference was significantly attenuated for those with higher optimism and higher perceived control. These findings suggest that higher levels of ELA may link with pain in adulthood through poorer mood and sleep, and that resilience resources such as optimism and control may buffer some of these pathways.
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