Abstract
Pain and pain related problems affect a significant proportion of the United States population. Past research suggests that emotional distress is associated with more severe and disabling pain experience. Yet, it is less clear how individual reactions to distress are related to pain experience. Distress tolerance, defined as the perceived ability to withstand cognitive, affective, or physical distress, is an individual difference factor that may be particularly important to understanding the experience of pain. The current study examined the association of distress tolerance with pain severity, pain disability, and frequency of pain disability in a sample of young adults (N = 1577, M age = 22.17) with mild to severe pain. Results indicated that, after controlling for gender, past 30-day opiate use, and perceived health status, lower distress tolerance was significantly associated with more severe and disabling pain. These novel empirical findings suggest distress tolerance may be a useful construct in need of further study among young adults with pain complaints.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1231-1238 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Psychology, Health and Medicine |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 26 2018 |
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Keywords
- Distress tolerance
- pain disability
- pain severity
- young adults
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Applied Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
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Distress tolerance and pain experience among young adults. / Rogers, Andrew H.; Bakhshaie, Jafar; Mayorga, Nubia A.; Ditre, Joseph W; Zvolensky, Michael J.
In: Psychology, Health and Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 10, 26.11.2018, p. 1231-1238.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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