Psychosocial factors and their influence on the experience of pain

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  • Lincoln M. Tracy
چکیده

Over the past 20 years, our understanding of social factors on pain experience has increased. Edwards et al observed that the presence of a friend resulted in an increased pain threshold and tolerance to experimentally induced pain (cold pressor test and pressure algometry). Having a male friend present had the most prominent effect on male participants' reporting of pain. However, the effects of psychosocial traits known to effect pain experience (eg, catastrophising) were not considered.

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دوره 2  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2017