The Effect of Induced Optimism on Situational Pain Catastrophizing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is broad evidence that optimism is associated with less pain, while pain catastrophizing leads to increased pain. The aim of this study was to examine whether experimentally induced optimism can reduce situational pain catastrophizing and whether this relation is moderated by dispositional optimism and/or dispositional pain catastrophizing.

Methods

Situational pain catastrophizing during two thermal stimulations was measured in 40 healthy participants with the Situational Catastrophizing Questionnaire (SCQ). Between the two stimulations, the Best Possible Self (BPS) imagery and writing task was performed to induce situational optimism in the experimental group while the control group wrote about their typical day. Questionnaires were administer

SUBMITTER: Basten-Gunther J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260170 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature