Cited by 56Pediatric Pain Management TechniquesMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Social Risk and Resilience Factors in Adolescent Chronic Pain: Examining the Role of Parents and Peers

Ross, Alexandra C, Simons, Laura E, Feinstein, Amanda B, Yoon, Isabel A, Bhandari, Rashmi P·2018·Journal of Pediatric Psychology

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Objective: The current study focuses on social risk and resilience in an adolescent population with chronic pain. Prior research identifies parental cognitions and behaviors as influential in youths' experiences of chronic pain and pain-related disability. Adolescent development is characterized by greater autonomy from parents and an increased emphasis on peer relationships. Study aims explore the potential protective effect of high-quality adolescent peer relationships on associations between parent and adolescent cognitive and behavioral responses to pain. Method: 238 adolescents with mixed-etiology chronic pain and their parents completed Pediatric Collaborative Health Outcomes Information Registry (Peds-CHOIR) electronic questionnaires prior to their initial visit to a tertiary pediatric pain clinic. Variables in this study include parent catastrophizing, parent protective behavior, adolescent peer relationship quality, adolescent catastrophizing, adolescent functional impairment, and demographic and pain characteristics. Results: As expected, associations between parent and adolescent cognitive and behavioral pain responses were moderated by peer relationship quality. Contrary to expectations, for adolescents endorsing low-quality peer relationships, maladaptive adolescent outcomes were elevated across levels of parental cognitions and behaviors. For adolescents endorsing high-quality peer relationships, adolescent and parent pain responses were linearly related. Conclusions: This study highlights the salience of both family and peer processes in functional outcomes among adolescents with chronic pain. Results suggest that adolescents' adaptive responses to chronic pain may be best supported by the simultaneous presence of adaptive parenting and high-quality peer relationships. Understanding the larger social context in which an adolescent exists is informative in specifying models that predict adaptive outcomes or magnify risks.

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  • Utilizing social contexts that encourage high-quality peer relationships and support may help to foster adaptive outcomes among adolescents and their parents, and further understanding of family-level risk and resilience factors.

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Authors
Ross, A. C., Simons, L. E., Feinstein, A. B., Yoon, I. A., & Bhandari, R. P.
Affiliations
Stanford Medicine (US)
Corresponding author
Ross, Alexandra C
Venue
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
Published
2017-09-23
Volume
43
Issue
3
Pages
303-313
ISSN
  • 0146-8693 (ISSN-L)
  • 1465-735X
OpenAlex
W2757796663
Cited by
56
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1
FWCI
5.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Pediatric Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
adolescent chronic pain, social risk, resilience, peer relationship quality, pain catastrophizing, functional disability, pain-related disability, parent-adolescent relationships
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Child, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Parents, Peer Group, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk, Parenting, Resilience, Psychological, Chronic Pain

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