Sex, Gender, and Age: Contributions to Laboratory Pain Responding in Children and Adolescents
| Autor: | Su C. Kim, Dorie A. Glover, Norman Turk, Lonnie K. Zeltzer, Jennie C.I. Tsao, Cynthia D. Myers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Personality Tests Aging Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Pain tolerance Pain Logistic regression Developmental psychology Odds Ratio Pressure Humans Personality Big Five personality traits Child Pain Measurement media_common Sex Characteristics Puberty Socialization Cold pressor test Gender Identity Cold Temperature Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Neurology Masculinity Female Neurology (clinical) Psychology Sex characteristics Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Pain. 7:556-564 |
| ISSN: | 1526-5900 |
| Popis: | A cross-sectional design across late childhood and adolescence examined the influence of sex, gender socialization, and age on responses to controlled laboratory pain tasks. Healthy children and adolescents (n = 240, 50% female, age 8 to 18 years) completed the Child Sex Role Inventory, a self-report measure of identification with stereotypically masculine and feminine personality traits, as an index of gender socialization and participated in pressure, cold pressor, and heat pain tasks. Pain tolerance, pain intensity, and bothersomeness of each pain task were assessed. Masculinity correlated with lower heat pain ratings in boys but not girls. Logistic regression indicated cold pain intensity ratings were predicted by sex, gender score, and the age-by-gender score interaction. Heat pain intensity was predicted by age, gender score, age-by-gender score interaction, and sex-by-gender score. Perspective The current findings support closer examination of the influence of gender socialization on young people’s pain responses and highlight the importance of a multifactorial, developmental approach to studying the impact of gender socialization on the emergence of sex differences in pain responses after puberty. |
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