Social support, social undermining, and acute clinical pain in women: Mediational pathways of negative cognitive appraisal and emotion.
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Journal Article
Women may be disproportionately vulnerable to acute pain, potentially due to their social landscape. We examined whether positive and negative social processes (social support and social undermining) are associated with acute pain and if the processes are linked to pain via negative cognitive appraisal and emotion (pain catastrophizing, hyperarousal, anger). Psychosocial variables were assessed in inner-city women ( N = 375) presenting to an Emergency Department with acute pain. The latent cognitive-emotion variable fully mediated social undermining and support effects on pain, with undermining showing greater impact. Pain may be alleviated by limiting negative social interactions, mitigating risks of alternative pharmacological interventions.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Gaffey, AE; Burns, JW; Aranda, F; Purim-Shem-Tov, YA; Burgess, HJ; Beckham, JC; Bruehl, S; Hobfoll, SE
Published Date
- August 27, 2018
Published In
Start / End Page
- 1359105318796189 -
PubMed ID
- 30146929
Pubmed Central ID
- 30146929
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1461-7277
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1177/1359105318796189
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England