Effects of familial pain models on daily pain indices and performance during the cold pressor task

Amos Zeichner, Sabina Widner, Michael Loftin, Georgia Panopoulos, Joseph Allen

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

To understand better the role of pain history in current response to pain episodes, this research examined pain-related indices from the patient's family of origin and their relationships to the patient's coping with acute pain. Participants were 42 healthy men and women who provided information about their own and their family's pain history and then were administered a cold pressor task. High frequency of family pain modeling was associated with higher frequency of current pain episodes, more types of pain, greater intensity, and also lower physiological arousal and subjective pain ratings during the cold pressor. The findings underscore the relationships between familial pain modeling and current pain-related functioning.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)955-960
Number of pages6
JournalPsychological reports
Volume84
Issue number3 PART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Psychology

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Effects of familial pain models on daily pain indices and performance during the cold pressor task'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this