Anger management style moderates effects of attention strategy during acute pain induction on physiological responses to subsequent mental stress and recovery: A comparison of chronic pain patients and healthy nonpatients

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 454-462

  Burns, John W ^a   Quartana, Phillip J ^b   Bruehl, Stephen ^c  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pain; Attention strategies; Chronic pain patients; Symptom specific reactivity; Trait anger out

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGEMENT STYLE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANGER; ATTENTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PAIN; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67049098821     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318199d97f     Document Type: Article

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