Social Support, Social Undermining, and Acute Clinical Pain in Women: Mediational Pathways of Negative Cognitive Appraisal and Emotion

Overview

Journal J Health Psychol

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Psychology

Date 2018 Aug 28

PMID 30146929

Citations 3

Authors

Allison E Gaffey

John W Burns

Frances Aranda

Yanina A Purim-Shem-Tov

Helen J Burgess

Jean C Beckham

Stephen Bruehl

Stevan E Hobfoll

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Abstract

Women may be disproportionately vulnerable to acute pain, potentially due to their social landscape. We examined whether positive and negative social processes (social support and social undermining) are associated with acute pain and if the processes are linked to pain via negative cognitive appraisal and emotion (pain catastrophizing, hyperarousal, anger). Psychosocial variables were assessed in inner-city women ( = 375) presenting to an Emergency Department with acute pain. The latent cognitive-emotion variable fully mediated social undermining and support effects on pain, with undermining showing greater impact. Pain may be alleviated by limiting negative social interactions, mitigating risks of alternative pharmacological interventions.

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