OBJECTIVE. Our goal was to investigate the relationship between sensory processing styles
and use of pain coping strategies in an experimental setting to understand individual …

OBJECTIVE. We examined the relationship between pain perception, as expressed by pain
catastrophizing level, and sensory processing patterns among typical adults. METHOD. Two …

Recent research suggests that communicative and protective pain behaviors represent
functionally distinct subsystems of behavior associated with pain. The present research …

Purpose Research supports a role for coping responses in adjustment to chronic pain.
However, it is likely that some coping responses play a larger role in adjustment to pain for …

Perceptions of control over pain and specific pain coping strategies are associated with a
number of positive outcomes in patients with chronic pain conditions. Transactional models …

Accumulating evidence linking pain with both attachment and sensory processing variables
introduces the possibility that attachment-and sensory-informed strategies may modify pain …

Our previous research suggests the importance of perceived competence for coping with
chronic pain indicating that perceived competence determines how intensely persons …

Objective: To evaluate the effects of matching an individual's coping style (low, mixed, or
high monitoring) to an appropriate cognitive strategy (distraction or sensation monitoring) to …

Introduction: Quantitative sensory testing has demonstrated a promising link between
experimentally determined pain sensitivity and clinical pain. However, previous studies of …

Background This study compared an acceptance-based strategy with a control-based
strategy (distraction) in terms of the ability of participants to tolerate a painful stimulus, across …