Open AccessPain beliefs mediate relations between general resilience and dysfunction from chronic back pain.
Author(s) -
Shuanghong Chen,
Todd Jackson
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
rehabilitation psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1939-1544
pISSN - 0090-5550
DOI - 10.1037/rep0000244
Subject(s) - pain catastrophizing , chronic pain , dysfunctional family , back pain , psychology , psycinfo , physical therapy , quality of life (healthcare) , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , medicine , medline , psychotherapist , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
A substantial percentage of people affected by chronic back pain maintain a high quality of life despite ongoing discomfort. Presumably, more resilient persons view pain and their capacities to manage it in a manner that mitigates pain-related dysfunction. Research Method/Design: To test this premise, 307 mainland Chinese adults with chronic back pain (189 women, 118 men) completed self-report measures of psychological resilience, pain beliefs (challenge appraisals of pain, pain self-efficacy, pain catastrophizing) and pain-related dysfunction (i.e., pain intensity, disability, affective distress, depression) within a cross-sectional research design.