Anger arousal and behavioral anger regulation in everyday life among people with chronic low back pain: Relationships with spouse responses and negative affect

Health Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 29-40

  Burns, John W ^a   Gerhart, James I ^a   Bruehl, Stephen ^b   Post, Kristina M ^c   Smith, David A ^d   Porter, Laura S ^e   Schuster, Erik ^a   Buvanendran, Asokumar ^a   Fras, Anne Marie ^e   Keefe, Francis J ^e  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger expression inhibition; Daily diary; Patient anger arousal; Spouse responses

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; SADNESS; SPOUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMAN RELATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; AROUSAL; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES;

EID: 84952862978     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000221     Document Type: Article

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