Pain catastrophizing, threat, and the informational value of mood: Task persistence during a painful finger pressing task

Pain

Volumn 153, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1410-1417

  Karsdorp, Petra A ^a   Ranson, Saskia ^a   Schrooten, Martien G S ^a,b   Vlaeyen, Johan W S ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective motivational models; Experimental pain; Pain catastrophizing; Task persistence; Threat context

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER PRESSING TASK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOOD; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN CATASTROPHIZING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CATASTROPHIZATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862506567     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.02.026     Document Type: Article

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