Expectancy variables predicting tolerance and avoidance of pain in chronic pain patients

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 437-444

  Cipher, Daisha J ^a,b   Fernandez, Ephrem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPECTANCY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD;

AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RISK-TAKING; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030975724     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(96)00121-0     Document Type: Article

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