Lower-Order Pain-Related Constructs Are More Predictive of Cold Pressor Pain Ratings than Higher-Order Personality Traits

Journal of Pain

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 681-691

  Lee, Jennifer E ^a   Watson, David ^b   Frey Law, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety sensitivity; Experimental pain; fear of pain; neuroticism; pain catastrophizing; somatosensory amplification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS;

ADULT; AFFECT; CAUSALITY; COLD TEMPERATURE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERSONALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953871761     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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