Research indicates that anxiety sensitivity may be related to the negative experience of pain,
especially amongst women. Further evidence with chronic pain patients indicates that …

Background: Chronic pain can significantly disrupt occupational engagement through
physical, psychological, and social domains. Because pain is a subjective experience …

Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of pain severity on activity
levels and physical disability in the context of high pain acceptance. We hypothesized that …

Reduced conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and psychological distress co-occur frequently
in many pain conditions. This study explored whether common negative pain cognitions and …

Background Anecdotally, clinical presentations in which pain seems to be elicited by non-
noxious stimuli are often explained using a classical conditioning framework. We were …

Objectives: To develop individual and effective treatment plans for patients with chronic pain,
we aimed to replicate Grolimund and colleagues' empirical categorization of chronic pain …

Objective Risk constructs based on psychological risk factors (eg, pain catastrophizing, PC)
and sensitization risk factors (eg, pressure pain threshold, PPT) are important in research …

Meta-analytic techniques were utilized to investigate the relationship between self-reports of
pain intensity and direct observations of pain behavior. Estimation of the overall effect size …

Background: The Pain-related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire (PCPQ) provides a
multifaceted assessment of different styles of pain-related attentional processing. The …

Patients with musculoskeletal illness often report that pain interferes with their ability to
engage in activities of daily living. Catastrophic thinking is consistently depicted as an …