Psychometric Evaluation

Eggebrecht, D.-B.; Bautz, M.; Brenig, M.; Pfingsten, M.; Franz, Claudia

doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-8868-5_5

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“…Subjects had been informed that they would be making multiple ratings, although the exact number was unspecified. The rating was made by placing a mark on a visual analog pain scale (Eggebrecht, Bautz, Brening, Pfingsten, & Franz, 1989), which is a 13-mm horizontal line anchored with pain as severe as it could be at the left pole and no pain at the right. The words severe, moderate, and slight extended left-to-right below the entire length of the vector.…”

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Delayed costs of suppressed pain.

Cioffi¹,

Holloway²

1993

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

290

197

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The study demonstrates that the rebound effect of thought suppression (Wegner, 1989) has an analog in the experience of somatic discomfort. During a cold-pressor pain induction, 63 Ss were instructed either to concentrate on their room at home (distraction), to pay close attention to their hand sensations (monitoring), or to remove awareness of those sensations from mind (suppression). Two min of postpressor pain ratings showed that monitoring produced the most rapid recovery from the pain and that suppression produced the slowest. Suppression also contaminated the interpretation of a subsequent somatic stimulation; later in the experimental hour, Ss who had suppressed their cold-pressor discomfort rated an innocuous vibration as more unpleasant than did other Ss. The strategies are discussed for their necessarily distinct processes of goal evaluation and their possibly differential drain on perceived coping capacities.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Delayed costs of suppressed pain.

Cioffi¹,

Holloway²

1993

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

290

197

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“…Numeric rating scales were used to assess pain severity and distress. The items were composed of 13-point Likert-type rating scales (based on Eggebrecht, Bautz, Brening, Pfingsten, & Franz, 1989). Descriptors ranged from 0 = none at all to 13 = extreme .…”

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Shifts in attention biases in response to acute pain induction: Examination of a model of "conversion" among repressors.

Burns¹,

Quartana²,

Elfant³

et al. 2010

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Unlike most people, those who are characterized by a repressive coping style report high levels of physical (sensory) pain but low levels of emotional distress (affective pain), which is a discrepancy that may suggest a "conversion" process. In two studies, we tested an attention allocation model, proposing that repressors direct attention away from threatening negative affective information and toward nonthreatening physical pain information during emotionally arousing (painful) situations. In Study 1, 84 participants underwent a cold pressor and then recovered. Repressors reported greater pain during recovery than low- and high-anxious participants, but they reported lower distress than high-anxious participants. Repressors reported significant and large discrepancies between high pain and low distress, whereas these differences were less pronounced for other groups. In Study 2, 77 participants underwent an ischemic pain task while performing a modified dot-probe task with sensory and negative affective pain words as stimuli. Repressors showed increasing biases away from affective pain words and toward sensory pain words as the pain task continued, whereas low- and high-anxious participants did not show these shifts in attention. The results support the notion that conversion among repressors may involve a process by which attention is directed away from emotional distress during noxious stimulation and is focused instead on sensory information from pain.

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2011

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Psychometric Evaluation

Cited by 11 publications

References 57 publications

Delayed costs of suppressed pain.

Delayed costs of suppressed pain.

Shifts in attention biases in response to acute pain induction: Examination of a model of "conversion" among repressors.

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