Cited by 41Pain Management and Opioid UseCancer survivorship and carePediatric Pain Management Techniques

The communal coping model and cancer pain: the roles of catastrophizing and attachment style

Open access
Gauthier, Lynn R., Rodin, Gary, Zimmermann, Camilla, Warr, David, Librach, S. Lawrence, Moore, Malcolm, Shepherd, Frances A., Gagliese, Lucia·2012·The Journal of Pain

Abstract

Unlabelled Pain is among the most common symptoms of cancer, with impacts on multiple domains of well-being. Biopsychosocial factors play an important role in adjustment to cancer pain. The Communal Coping Model (CCM), which may elucidate the social context of cancer pain, suggests that people catastrophize to convey distress and elicit support. Attachment style, one's ability to elicit and respond to available support, may be an important factor, but this has not been tested in people with cancer pain. This study examined pain catastrophizing, attachment style and relational context in relation to perceived solicitous, distracting, and punishing responses of significant others to pain in 191 patients with advanced cancer. Consistent with the CCM, higher pain catastrophizing was related to more frequent solicitous and distracting responses. Pain catastrophizing, attachment anxiety, and significant other type interacted in relation to punishing responses. Higher pain catastrophizing was related to less frequent punishing responses only in anxiously attached patients who identified their spouse/partner as their significant other. These results provide support for the CCM of cancer pain, and contribute to refinement of the model. Future research that includes patients and their caregivers is required to further explicate the social context of cancer pain.Perspective This article investigates the Communal Coping Model in people with cancer pain. In partial support of the model, we found that pain catastrophizing was related to more frequent solicitous and distracting responses but less frequent punishing responses only in anxiously attached patients who identified their spouse/partner as their significant other.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.jpain.2012.10.001

Cites

83 of 83 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Interactions between chronic pain patients and their significant others can either help or harm adjustment to chronic pain.

    “It is clear that the interactions between patients with chronic pain and their significant others can either facilitate or impair adjustment to chronic pain 87, 120–122.”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Gauthier, L. R., Rodin, G., Zimmermann, C., Warr, D., Librach, S. L., Moore, M., Shepherd, F. A., & Gagliese, L.
Affiliations
  • University Health Network (CA)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (CA)
Corresponding author
Gagliese, Lucia
Venue
The Journal of Pain
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-12
Volume
13
Issue
12
Pages
1258-1268
ISSN
1526-5900 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1972401613
Cited by
41
References
82
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2
FWCI
5.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Pain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (62866_1)
  • National Cancer Institute
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
Keywords
cancer pain, pain catastrophizing, attachment styles, attachment anxiety, social support, significant others, advanced cancer, biopsychosocial model
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Object Attachment, Pain, Pain Measurement, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Catastrophization

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review