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| Autor: | Linda M.G. Vancleef, Jantine J.L.M. Boselie, Madelon L. Peters |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Section Experimental Health Psychology, RS: FPN CPS I |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Emotions Anxiety Executive Function 0302 clinical medicine BUILD THEORY Task Performance and Analysis Pain Management/methods media_common education.field_of_study Depression Catastrophization 05 social sciences Chronic pain Anxiety/etiology Middle Aged SELF 3. Good health OPTIMISM Pain catastrophizing Original Article Female Positive psychology medicine.symptom Chronic Pain Psychology Clinical psychology Adult Chronic Pain/psychology media_common.quotation_subject Depression/etiology Population HOSPITAL ANXIETY 050105 experimental psychology VALIDATION 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Optimism WORKING-MEMORY medicine Pain Management Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Executive Function/physiology Cognitive skill education Internet Original Articles medicine.disease NEGATIVE AFFECT DISABILITY INDEX Catastrophization/etiology DEPRESSION SCALE Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine DAILY-LIFE Happiness Empathy 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Pain, 22(7), 1268-1280. Wiley European Journal of Pain (London, England) |
| ISSN: | 1532-2149 1090-3801 |
| Popis: | BackgroundChronic pain is associated with emotional problems as well as difficulties in cognitive functioning. Prior experimental studies have shown that optimism, the tendency to expect that good things happen in the future, and positive emotions can counteract pain-induced task performance deficits in healthy participants. More specifically, induced optimism was found to buffer against the negative effects of experimental pain on executive functioning. This clinical experiment examined whether this beneficial effect can be extended to a chronic pain population.MethodsPatients (N=122) were randomized to a positive psychology Internet-based intervention (PPI; n=74) or a waiting list control condition (WLC; n=48). The PPI consisted of positive psychology exercises that particularly target optimism, positive emotions and self-compassion.ResultsResults demonstrated that patients in the PPI condition scored higher on happiness, optimism, positive future expectancies, positive affect, self-compassion and ability to live a desired life despite pain, and scored lower on pain catastrophizing, depression and anxiety compared to patients in the WLC condition. However, executive task performance did not improve following completion of the PPI, compared to the WLC condition.ConclusionsDespite the lack of evidence that positive emotions and optimism can improve executive task performance in chronic pain patients, this study did convincingly demonstrate that it is possible to increase positive emotions and optimism in chronic pain patients with an online positive psychology intervention. It is imperative to further explore amendable psychological factors that may reduce the negative impact of pain on executive functioning.SignificanceWe demonstrated that an Internet-based positive psychology intervention strengthens optimism and positive emotions in chronic pain patients. These emotional improvements are not associated with improved executive task performance. As pain itself often cannot be relieved, it is imperative to have techniques to reduce the burden of living with chronic pain. |
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