ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2020
Optimism and Pain Interference in Aging Women.
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- Chronic pain in older adults with chronic diseases: prevalence, perceived interference, and management strategies.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Longitudinal associations between multimodal symptom clusters and functional disability in older adults: a comparative cohort analysis using SHARE, ELSA, and KLoSA.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Grit and Chronic Pain: Associations with Distress, Catastrophizing, Interference, and Control.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2025Article
- Relationships Between Self-Reported Pain and Optimism Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.International journal of aging & human development · 2024Article
- Conscientiousness and Pain Interference in Older Age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Specific Neurodynamic Exercises on Pain and Disability in Old Women with Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Injury, illness, and emotion: A review of the motivational continuum from trauma through recovery from an ecological perspective.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Review
- Eudaemonic Well-Being in Midlife Women: Change in and Correspondence Between Concurrent and Retrospective Reports.Collabra. Psychology · 2021Article
- The Strong Correlation Between Pain Interference and Abnormal Nutritional Status in Older Adults With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPain interferes with people's daily lives and often limits the extent to which they can pursue goals and engage in activities that promote well-being. However, people vary in how much interference they experience at a given level of pain. PURPOSE: The present study tested how optimism affects and is affected by pain interference and goal-directed activity among older women.
methodsEvery 3 months for 2 years, community-dwelling middle- and older-age women (N = 199) completed online daily diaries at home for a 7 day period, in which they reported their daily pain, pain interference, and goal-directed activity. Optimism was measured at the start and end of the study. Multilevel models tested the between- and within-person relationships among pain, optimism, and pain interference or goal-directed activity. Linear regression predicted change in optimism over 2 years from pain interference and goal-directed activity.
resultsPain best predicted pain interference and optimism best predicted goal-directed activity. There were subtle interactions between optimism and pain-predicting interference and goal-directed activity. Accumulated goal-directed activity and pain interference across the study predicted longitudinal changes in optimism, with higher activity and lower pain interference predicting increased optimism over 2 years.
conclusionsOptimism may play a protective role in disruptions caused by pain on a day-to-day basis, leading to increased goal-directed activity and possibly decreased pain interference. In turn, less interference and more goal-directed activity feed forward into increased optimism, resulting in a virtuous cycle that enhances optimism and well-being among older women.
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