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Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis
INTRODUCTION: This study sought to identify a model that explains the relationship between psychosocial factors and chronic pain in female patients, and to explore all of these constructs in a single study and provide a more holistic examination of the overall psychosocial factors that female patien...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26568558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/appy.12222 |
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author | Zeng, Fanmin Sun, Xueli Yang, Bangxiang Fu, Xiaoqian |
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description | INTRODUCTION: This study sought to identify a model that explains the relationship between psychosocial factors and chronic pain in female patients, and to explore all of these constructs in a single study and provide a more holistic examination of the overall psychosocial factors that female patients with chronic pain encounter. METHODS: Female patients with chronic pain (n = 147), aged 20–65 (M = 34.9 years, SD = 11.25), from an outpatient pain clinic completed a cross‐sectional self‐report questionnaire on anxiety, life events, personality, social support, and alexithymia. Data were analyzed by means of path analysis. RESULTS: The direct effect of anxiety on female patients with chronic pain was greatest among all the paths. Personality and alexithymia led to chronic pain in female patients only indirectly, mediated by life events. The personality factors of neuroticism and extraversion were associated positively with social support, which had an indirect effect on the influence of life events on chronic pain. However, alexithymia was associated negatively with social support, which had an indirect effect on the influence of life events on chronic pain. DISCUSSION: Our findings provide evidence that life events are a mediator in the relationship between personality, social support, alexithymia, and chronic pain in female patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-50631152016-10-19 Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis Zeng, Fanmin Sun, Xueli Yang, Bangxiang Fu, Xiaoqian Asia Pac Psychiatry Original Articles INTRODUCTION: This study sought to identify a model that explains the relationship between psychosocial factors and chronic pain in female patients, and to explore all of these constructs in a single study and provide a more holistic examination of the overall psychosocial factors that female patients with chronic pain encounter. METHODS: Female patients with chronic pain (n = 147), aged 20–65 (M = 34.9 years, SD = 11.25), from an outpatient pain clinic completed a cross‐sectional self‐report questionnaire on anxiety, life events, personality, social support, and alexithymia. Data were analyzed by means of path analysis. RESULTS: The direct effect of anxiety on female patients with chronic pain was greatest among all the paths. Personality and alexithymia led to chronic pain in female patients only indirectly, mediated by life events. The personality factors of neuroticism and extraversion were associated positively with social support, which had an indirect effect on the influence of life events on chronic pain. However, alexithymia was associated negatively with social support, which had an indirect effect on the influence of life events on chronic pain. DISCUSSION: Our findings provide evidence that life events are a mediator in the relationship between personality, social support, alexithymia, and chronic pain in female patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-11-16 2016-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5063115/ /pubmed/26568558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/appy.12222 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Asia‐Pacific Psychiatry published by Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Zeng, Fanmin Sun, Xueli Yang, Bangxiang Fu, Xiaoqian Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis |
title | Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis |
title_full | Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis |
title_fullStr | Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis |
title_short | Life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: A path analysis |
title_sort | life events, anxiety, social support, personality, and alexithymia in female patients with chronic pain: a path analysis |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26568558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/appy.12222 |
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