Chronic pain often interferes with daily functioning, and may become a threat to an
individual's sense of self. Despite the development of a recent theoretical account focussing …

One way to develop psychological approaches to chronic pain is to improve our
understanding of psychological processes that both underlie the impacts of pain and can be …

The aims of this study were to replicate and extend previous observations on the
relationship between enmeshment of the self and pain and measures of adjustment [Morley …

The aim of this study was to test whether enmeshment of self and pain predicted adjustment
(depression and acceptance) in a chronic pain population. 89 chronic pain patients …

Investigations of “self” in chronic pain have applied widely varied conceptualizations of the
term. The purpose of the current study was to develop a measure based on the three-facet …

Objectives: To determine the relationship between pain behaviors and self-report of pain
and disability in patients with chronic pain. Methods: Thirty-nine patients (59% women) …

This study explores the utility of a pain IAT for the assessment of dysfunctional cognitive
beliefs in chronic pain patients before and after a cognitive behaviour therapy. A patient …

Whereas some individuals use active coping strategies and are able to adaptively cope with
their pain, others use passive strategies and catastrophic appraisals, which are often …

Objectives: Patients' beliefs about pain play an important role in their readiness to engage
with chronic pain self-management. The central aim of this study was to validate a self-report …

Background Cognitive models explaining medically unexplained complaints propose that
activating illness-related memory causes increased complaints such as pain. However, our …