Psychological Flexibility as a Resilience Factor in Individuals With Chronic Pain.

ABSTRACT: Resilience factors have been suggested as key mechanisms in the relation between symptoms and disability among individuals with chronic pain. However, there is a need to better operationalize resilience and to empirically evaluate its role and function. The present study examined psychological flexibility as a resilience factor in relation to symptoms and functioning among 252 adults with chronic pain applying for participation in a digital ACT-based self-help treatment. Participants completed measures of symptoms (pain intensity, and anxiety), functioning (pain interference and depression), as well as the hypothesized resilience factor psychological flexibility (measured as avoidance, value obstruction, and value progress). As expected, symptoms, functioning and resilience factors were si

SUBMITTER: Gentili C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6734029 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature