ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2019
Goal Adjustment and Well-Being: The Role of Optimism in Patients with Chronic Pain.
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- Assessment and Correlates of Different Phenotypical Characteristics of Psychological Flexibility in Adapting to Chronic Pain: A Feasibility Study.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025Article
- A protocol for a wait list control trial of an intervention to improve pain and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older women living with disabilities.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Temporal stability of optimism and pessimism (LOT-R) over 6 years in the general population.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Motive Satisfaction Among Patients with Chronic Primary Pain: A Replication.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Article
- The Role of Adaptive Goal Processes in Mental Wellbeing in Chronic Pain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The status of e-learning, personality traits, and coping styles among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Preferred Self-Administered Questionnaires to Assess Resilience, Optimism, Pain Acceptance, and Social Support in People with Pain: A Modified Delphi Study.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Psychological distress after esophageal cancer surgery and the predictive effect of dispositional optimism: a nationwide population-based longitudinal study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
- How and when goal-oriented self-regulation improves college students' well-being: A weekly diary study.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Higher Dispositional Optimism Predicts Better Health-Related Quality of Life After Esophageal Cancer Surgery: A Nationwide Population-Based Longitudinal Study.Annals of surgical oncology · 2021Article
- Self-efficacy beliefs mediate the association between pain intensity and pain interference in acute/subacute whiplash-associated disorders.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
- Perceived Coach-Created Motivational Climates as Predictors of Athletes' Goal Reengagement: The Mediational Role of Goal Motives.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Role of Positive Psychological Factors in the Association between Pain Intensity and Pain Interference in Individuals with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Using vignettes to assess the contribution of goal adjustment in the adaptation to chronic musculoskeletal pain.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- A Postcard From Italy: Challenges and Psychosocial Resources of Partners Living With and Without a Chronic Disease During COVID-19 Epidemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundChronic pain directly or indirectly interferes with valued personal goals. Goal adjustment plays a central role in patients' adaptation. Studies on the relationship between optimism and goal regulation have shown that people with high dispositional optimism adjust their goals in a flexible way, and that flexible goal adjustment promotes quality of life. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship among optimism, goal adjustment, and adaptation in patients with chronic pain.
methodsA sample of 258 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain completed questionnaires on optimism, reengagement, disengagement, flexibility, tenacity, rumination, purpose in life, well-being, pain intensity, daily functioning, and impairment.
resultsStructural equation modeling analysis showed that optimism had a positive association with reengagement, flexibility, and tenacity, and a negative association with disengagement. Disengagement was positively associated with rumination, whereas reengagement, flexibility, and tenacity were associated with higher levels of purpose in life, which were strongly associated with adaptation in patients with chronic pain.
conclusionsThis study supports the conclusions of previous research on the role of goal adjustment as a mediator variable between optimism and well-being.
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