A Brief Measure of Unbearable Psychache

Pachkowski, Mikayla C.; May, Alexis M.; Tsai, Michelle; Klonsky, E. David

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“…So far, multiple psychache measures have been compiled and applied in Canada, China, France, Israel, including the Psychache Scale (PAS) (43) (48). Referring to the 13-item PAS, threeitem Unbearable Psychache Scale was developed from items 10, 11, and 12 of the PAS, which also demonstrated excellent internal reliability, strong convergent and predictive validity in psychiatric inpatient adults and general adults (46). In addition, TMPS is the first instrument to assess tolerance for mental pain, which is composed of three aspects: (a) ability to tolerate pain surfeit, (b) belief in the ability to cope with pain, and (c) containing the pain (47).…”

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Research on Psychache in Suicidal Population: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Papers Published During 1994–2020

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Background: Psychache is a negative introspective experience, which is positively associated with the risk of suicide, independently of depression. It is undeniable that psychache is an important influencing factor to trigger suicide, which can also mediate the effect between depression and suicide variables. Nevertheless, the research tendency and current hotspots on psychache of suicide population have not been systematically investigated based on bibliometric analysis.Aim: The aim of the study was to analyze the research status, hotspots, and frontiers of psychological pain in the field of suicidology, so as to provide reference for domestic clinical research.Methods: The literature related to psychache in suicide individuals published from 1994 to 2020 was included and selected from the Web of Science Core Collection database on May 28, 2021. CiteSpace (version 5.7.R2) software was used to visualize and analyze highly cited journals, authors, and articles as well as co-occurrence analysis for countries, institution, authors, and keywords.Results: A total of 230 articles from the WoS database were included. The number of papers over the years showed an overall upward trend. The United States has made the largest contribution, with the majority of publications (89, 38.70%), followed by Canada (48, 20.87%), Israel (31, 13.48%), China (20, 8.80%), and Portugal (17, 7.39%). The most productive institution was Queen's University. Edwin S. Shneidman has the largest achievement and profound influence, and the most prolific author is Ronald R. Holden. However, the cooperation between institutions and authors was comparatively weak. The current hotspots in this field focus on the studies on the relationships between depression, despair, psychache, and suicide, the risk assessments of psychological pain, and the development of psychological pain scales. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior was the most frequently cited journal in this field.Conclusions: This analysis not only reveals the current research trend and hotspots but also provides some instructive suggestions on the development of psychache in the suicidology. Future work should pay more attention to develop effective psychological pain intervention programs for diverse suicide population. Additionally, longitudinal study can also be conducted to grasp the trajectory changes of psychological pain among suicide individuals.

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“…Previous results with the Portuguese version (Campos et al, 2018) have supported the unidimensional scoring of the scale, its ability to differentiate between individuals at-risk for suicide from individuals not at-risk, its relationship with different, but related, constructs, and its ability to statistically predict suicide ideation. Recently (Pachkowski et al, 2019), Psychache Scale items have been differentiated into 3 items emphasizing unbearable psychache (i.e., unbearable pain) versus 10 items that measure tolerable, rather than unbearable psychological pain. In the current sample, the coefficient α for scores on the total Psychache scale was .93.…”

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“…The Psychache Scale is composed of 13 items and previous studies (Campos, Holden, & Gomes, 2018;Troister & Holden, 2013) have confirmed its unidimensionality but, recently, Pachkowski, May, Tsai, and Klonsky (2019) have differentiated the scale into three items that emphasize unbearable psychache, a more intense and difficult to tolerate psychological pain (e.g., "I can't take my pain any more") versus 10 items that emphasize a relatively more moderate form of pain (e.g., "I seem to ache inside"). However, those researchers did not evaluate whether the three-item scale of unbearable pain provided a statistically significant incremental contribution to the statistical prediction of suicide behaviors.…”

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Psychological pain and previous suicide attempts in young adults: Results with the Portuguese version of the Psychache Scale

Campos

Holden

2020

J Clin Psychol

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Objectives In this study, we tested whether the unbearable pain scale of the Psychache Scale provides value for the statistical prediction of a previous suicide attempt; we evaluated whether psychological pain has incremental value in the statistical prediction of a previous suicide attempt relative to the reporting of having had a psychiatric diagnosis, and we established a cut‐score for the Psychache Scale. Method Two samples participated: a sample consisting of 1,460 young adults and a sample of 628 Portuguese community adults. Results and Conclusions Results demonstrated that unbearable pain is not a stronger predictor of a previous suicide attempt than is the bearable pain score of the Psychache Scale; that the total score of the Psychache scale provides an additional statistically significant contribution to the statistical prediction of a previous suicide attempt relative to the reporting of having had a psychiatric diagnosis.

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“…Unbearable Psychache Scale (UP3) [20], and Tolerance for Mental Pain Scale (TMPS)-10 are the scales used to evaluate the tolerance for mental pain [21,22]. UP3 was developed from 3 items of the Psychache Scale [20]. The TMPS evaluates three aspects of tolerance for mental pain: surfeit of the pain, belief in the ability the cope with the pain, and containing the pain [21,22].…”

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Validity and reliability study of the Turkish version of the tolerance for mental pain scale-10

Demirkol

Tamam

Namlı

et al. 2019

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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OBJECTIVE: Psychological pain has been accepted as one of the most critical psychological risk factors underlying suicidal ideation and behaviour. Suicide is chosen as a way to get rid of intense, painful and unbearable psychological pain. Since the level of tolerance rather than the intensity of psychological pain was considered to be more predictive for suicide, we aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Tolerance for Mental Pain Scale-10 (TMPS-10). METHODS: A total of 121 patients diagnosed with depression in 62 of them had previous suicide attempts and 105 healthy controls who applied to the outpatient clinics of Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine Psychiatry Department were included in the study. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSIS), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Psychache Scale (PS) and TMPS-10 were applied to participants. RESULTS: In the internal consistency analysis, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.96 for enduring the pain, 0.96 for managing the pain, 0.98 for the whole scale, and item-total correlation coefficients were found to be between 0.87 and 0.93. The scale fit well to both the two-factor and single-factor structure in the confirmatory factor analysis. The multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed that both the depressive patients and the control group interpreted the scale items in the same way. In convergent validity analysis, there was a negative, linear, high and statistically significant relationship between TMPS-10 scores and PS, BSIS, BDI and BHS scores (r = −0.935; −0.779; −0.890; −0.808; p < .0.001, respectively). In discriminant function analysis, TMPS-10 successfully differentiated the depressive group and the control group, as well as the depressive patients who did or did not attempt suicide (96.5%, 88.1%, respectively). CONCLUSION: The Turkish version of TMPS-10 is valid and reliable, and may be useful in research and clinical practices about suicide. ARTICLE HISTORY

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A Brief Measure of Unbearable Psychache

Cited by 39 publications

References 62 publications

Research on Psychache in Suicidal Population: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Papers Published During 1994–2020

Research on Psychache in Suicidal Population: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Papers Published During 1994–2020

Psychological pain and previous suicide attempts in young adults: Results with the Portuguese version of the Psychache Scale

Validity and reliability study of the Turkish version of the tolerance for mental pain scale-10

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