Trait anger expressiveness and pain-induced beta-endorphin release: Support for the opioid dysfunction hypothesis

Pain

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-215

  Bruehl, Stephen ^a   Chung, Ok Y ^a   Burns, John W ^b   Diedrich, Laura ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger expression; Anger in; Anger out; Beta endorphin; Opioids; Pain

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; OPIATE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALGESIA; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHESIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; OPIOID DYSFUNCTION HYPOTHESIS; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANGER; BETA-ENDORPHIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 34250836963     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Aiken L.S., and West S.G. Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions (1991), Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA
2. Baron R.M., and Kenny D.A. The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. J Pers Soc Psych 51 (1986) 1173-1182
3. Beck A.T., Ward C.H., Mendelson M., Mock J.E., and Erbough J.K. An inventory for measuring depression. Arch Gen Psychiat 4 (1961) 561-571
4. Bragdon E.E., Light K.C., Costello N.L., Sigurdsson A., Bunting S., Bhalang K., and Maixner W. Group differences in pain modulation: pain-free women compared to pain-free men and to women with TMD. Pain 96 (2002) 227-237
5. Bruehl S., McCubbin J.A., and Harden R.N. Theoretical review: altered pain regulatory systems in chronic pain. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 23 (1999) 877-890
6. Bruehl S., Burns J.W., Chung O.Y., Ward P., and Johnson B. Anger and pain sensitivity in chronic low back pain patients and pain-free controls: the role of endogenous opioids. Pain 99 (2002) 223-233
7. Bruehl S., Chung O.Y., Burns J.W., and Biridepalli S. The association between anger expression and chronic pain intensity: evidence for partial mediation by endogenous opioid dysfunction. Pain 106 (2003) 317-324
8. Bruehl S., Chung O.Y., Donahue B.S., and Burns J.W. Anger regulation style, postoperative pain, and relationship to the A118G mu opioid receptor gene polymorphism: a preliminary study. J Behav Med 29 (2006) 161-169
9. Bruehl S., Chung O.Y., and Burns J.W. Anger expression and pain: an overview of findings and possible mechanisms. J Behav Med 29 (2006) 593-606
10. Burns J.W., and Bruehl S. Anger management style, opioid analgesic use, and chronic pain severity: a test of the opioid-deficit hypothesis. J Behav Med 28 (2005) 555-563
11. Burns J.W., Kubilus A., and Bruehl S. Emotion-induction moderates effects of anger management style on acute pain sensitivity. Pain 106 (2003) 109-118
12. Burns J.W., Bruehl S., and Caceres C. Anger management style, blood pressure reactivity and acute pain sensitivity: evidence for a Trait × Situation model. Ann Behav Med 27 (2004) 195-204
13. Burns J.W., Bruehl S., and Quartana P. Anger management style and hostility among chronic pain patients: effects on symptom-specific physiological reactivity during anger- and sadness-recall interviews. Psychosom Med 68 (2006) 786-793
14. Casey K.L., Svensson P., Morrow T.J., Raz J., Jones C., and Minoshima S. Selective opiate modulation of nociceptive processing in the human brain. J Neurophysiol 84 (2000) 525-533
15. Cleeland C.S., Shacham S., Dahl J.L., and Orrison W. CSF B-endorphin and the severity of pain. Neurology 34 (1984) 378-380
16. Davidson R.J., Putnam K.M., and Larson C.L. Dysfunction in the neural circuitry of emotion regulation - a possible prelude to violence. Science 289 (2000) 591-594
17. Dougherty D.D., Shin L.M., Alpert N.M., Pitman R.K., Orr S.P., Laska M., Macklin M.L., Fischman A.J., and Rach S.L. Anger in healthy men: a PET study using script-driven imagery. Biol Psychiatry 46 (1999) 466-472
18. Engebretson T.O., Matthews K.A., and Scheier M.F. Relations between anger expression and cardiovascular reactivity: reconciling inconsistent findings through a matching hypothesis. J Pers Soc Psych 57 (1989) 513-521
19. Faber S.D., and Burns J.W. Anger management style, degree of expressed anger, and gender influence cardiovascular recovery from interpersonal harassment. J Behav Med 19 (1996) 31-53
20. Fillingim R.B., Kaplan L., Staud R., Ness T.J., Glover T.L., Campbell C.M., Mogil J.S., and Wallace M.R. The A118G single nucleotide polymorphism of the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) is associated with pressure pain sensitivity in humans. J Pain 6 (2005) 159-167
21. First M.B., Spitzer R.L., Gibbon M., and Williams J.B.W. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders, Clinician Version (SCID-CV) (1997), American Psychiatric Press, Inc, Washington, DC
22. Forgione A.G., and Barber T.X. A strain gauge pain stimulator. Psychophysiology 8 (1971) 102-106
23. Gelkopf M. Laboratory pain and styles of coping with anger. J Psychol 131 (1997) 121-123
24. Guasti L., Catteneo R., Daneri A., Bianchi L., Gaudio G., Regazzi M., et al. Endogenous beta-endorphins in hypertension: correlation with 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure. JACC 28 (1996) 1243-1248
25. Keefe F.J., Lumley M., Anderson T., Lynch T., and Carson K.L. Pain and emotion: new research directions. J Clin Psychol 57 (2001) 587-607
26. Kerns R.D., Rosenberg R., and Jacob M.C. Anger expression and chronic pain. J Behav Med 17 (1994) 57-67
27. Maurset A., Skoglund L.A., Hustveit O., Klepstad P., and Oye I. A new version of the ischemic tourniquet pain test. Meth Find Exp Clin Pharmacol 13 (1992) 643-647
28. Melzack R. The short form of the McGill pain Questionnaire. Pain 30 (1987) 191-197
29. Millan M.J. Descending control of pain. Prog Neurobiol 66 (2002) 355-474
30. Miller P.F., Light K.C., Bragdon E.E., Ballenger M.N., Herbst M.C., Maixner W., Hinderliter A.L., Atkinson S.S., Koch G.G., and Sheps D.S. Beta-endorphin response to exercise and mental stress in patients with ischemic heart disease. J Psychosom Res 37 (1993) 455-465
31. Price D.D. Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain. Science 288 (2000) 1769-1772
32. Rosa C., Ghione S., Mezzasalma L., Pellegrini M., Fasolo B., Giaconi S., et al. Relationship between pain sensitivity, cardiovascular reactivity to cold pressor test, and indexes of activity of the adrenergic and opioid system. Clin Exper Theory A10 Suppl. 1 (1988) 383-390
33. Sheps D.S., Ballenger M.N., De Gent G.E., Krittayaphong R., Dittman E., Maixner W., et al. Psychophysical responses to a speech stressor: correlation of plasma beta-endorphin levels at rest and after psychological stress with thermally measured pain threshold in patients with coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 25 (1995) 1499-1503
34. Spielberger C.D., Gorsuch R.L., and Lushene R.E. Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (1970), Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA
35. Spielberger C.D., Johnson E.H., Russell S.F., Crane R.J., Jacobs G.A., and Worden T.J. The experience and expression of anger: construction and validation of an anger expression scale. In: Chesney M.A., and Rosenman R.H. (Eds). Anger and hostility in cardiovascular and behavioral disorders (1985), Hemisphere Publishing Corp., Washington, DC. 5-30
36. Szyfelbein S.K., Osgood P.F., and Carr D.B. The assessment of pain and plasma β-endorphin immunoreactivity in burned children. Pain 22 (1985) 173-182