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Psychological Resilience, Pain Catastrophizing, and Positive Emotions: Perspectives on Comprehensive Modeling of Individual Pain Adaptation
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Pain is a complex construct that contributes to profound physical and psychological dysfunction, particularly in individuals coping with chronic pain. The current paper builds upon previous research, describes a balanced conceptual model that integrates aspects of both psychological vulnerability and resilience to pain, and reviews protective and exacerbating psychosocial factors to the process of adaptation to chronic pain, including pain catastrophizing, pain acceptance, and positive psychological resources predictive of enhanced pain coping. The current paper identifies future directions for research that will further enrich the understanding of pain adaptation and espouses an approach that will enhance the ecological validity of psychological pain coping models, including introduction of advanced statistical and conceptual models that integrate behavioral, cognitive, information processing, motivational and affective theories of pain.
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- Authors
- Sturgeon, J. A., & Zautra, A. J.
- Affiliations
- Arizona State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sturgeon, John A.
- ORCID
- Sturgeon, John A.
- Venue
- Current Pain and Headache Reports
- Published
- 2013-01-22
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 317-317
- ISSN
- 1531-3433 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-3081
- PMC
- PMC9473682
- OpenAlex
- W2023043038
- Cited by
- 221
- References
- 76
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- 1.57
- Type
- journal article
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- en
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Current Pain and Headache Reports (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG026006)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Keywords
- psychological resilience, pain catastrophizing, positive emotions, chronic pain, pain adaptation, pain acceptance, pain coping, psychosocial factors, psychological vulnerability
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Psychological, Motivation, Pain, Pain Measurement, Resilience, Psychological, Catastrophization
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