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Catastrophizing and perceived partner responses to pain

Boothby, Jennifer L, Thorn, Beverly E, Overduin, Lorraine Y, Charles Ward, L·2004·Pain
DOI 10.1016/j.pain.2004.02.030
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This study examined the relationship between catastrophizing and patient-perceived partner responses to pain behaviors. The Catastrophizing subscale of the Cognitive Coping Strategy Inventory and the West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory were completed by 62 adult chronic pain patients. Consistent with past research, catastrophizing and patient-perceived solicitous partner behaviors were positively correlated with negative pain outcomes. The communal coping theory of catastrophizing suggests that catastrophizing might be undertaken to solicit support and empathy from others. However, catastrophizing was not related to perceived solicitous partner behavior in this study. Rather, catastrophizing was associated with perceived punishing partner responses. Implications are that catastrophizing and perceived solicitous partner behaviors are independently associated with pain and that catastrophizing may not be reinforced by empathy from significant others.

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  • Depression, anxiety, and emotional distress contribute strongly, often more strongly than pain intensity, to long-term persistent pain outcomes including physical disability, work disability, healthcare costs, mortality, and suicide.

    “there is a wealth of evidence that symptoms of depression, anxiety, and emotional distress contribute strongly (more strongly than pain intensity, in many studies) to key long-term outcomes of persistent pain such as physical disability 35, 43–46, work disability 47, healthcare costs 48, 49, mortality 50–53, and suicide 22, 54, 55.”

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  • Chronic pain patients show higher self-reported negative affect than pain-free controls across all such indices.

    “Recent systematic reviews indicate that chronic pain patients, relative to pain-free controls, show elevations in all of these indices of self-reported negative affect 33–35.”

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Authors
Boothby, J. L., Thorn, B. E., Overduin, L. Y., & Charles Ward, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Alabama (US)
  • Indiana State University (US)
Corresponding author
Boothby, Jennifer L
ORCID
Thorn, Beverly E
Venue
Pain
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
2004-06
Volume
109
Issue
3
Pages
500-506
ISSN
0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.pain.2004.02.030
OpenAlex
W2093663252
Cited by
126
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 11
FWCI
2.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Pain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
Keywords
pain catastrophizing, chronic pain, empathy, social support, pain outcomes
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Anxiety, Disability Evaluation, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Pain, Pain Measurement, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reinforcement, Psychology, Social Behavior, Social Support, Reproducibility of Results, Caregivers, Sex Distribution, Spouses

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