Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a review and integration
Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a review and integration
Do patients with chronic pain selectively process pain- and illness-related stimuli? The evidence with regard to attention, interpretation, and recall biases is critically reviewed. A model is proposed to account for the findings in which it is suggested that biases in information processing in chronic pain are the result of overlap between 3 schemas: pain, illness, and self. With frequent repeated or continued experience of pain, the pain schema becomes enmeshed with illness and self-schemas. The extent of the enmeshment and the salient content of the schema determine the bias. A fundamental assumption is that all patients with pain selectively process sensory-intensity information. A clinical implication of the results is that processing biases that extend beyond this healthy and adaptive process to enmesh the self-schema with pain and illness schemas could maintain and exacerbate distress and illness behavior in patients with chronic pain.
EMPIRICALLY DERIVED TAXONOMY, EMOTIONAL STROOP TASK, RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS, SELECTIVE MEMORY, PERSISTENT PAIN, SELF-REFERENCE, CLINICAL PAIN, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY, FUTURE-DIRECTIONS, DEPRESSION SCALE
599-617
Pincus, Tamar
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Morley, S
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10 September 2001
Pincus, Tamar
55388347-5d71-4fc0-9fd2-66fbba080e0c
Morley, S
fbe90290-2a76-41d8-9c1b-ebb614ef5310
Pincus, Tamar and Morley, S
(2001)
Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a review and integration.
Psychological Bulletin, 127 (5), .
(doi:10.1037//0033-2909.127.5.599).
Abstract
Do patients with chronic pain selectively process pain- and illness-related stimuli? The evidence with regard to attention, interpretation, and recall biases is critically reviewed. A model is proposed to account for the findings in which it is suggested that biases in information processing in chronic pain are the result of overlap between 3 schemas: pain, illness, and self. With frequent repeated or continued experience of pain, the pain schema becomes enmeshed with illness and self-schemas. The extent of the enmeshment and the salient content of the schema determine the bias. A fundamental assumption is that all patients with pain selectively process sensory-intensity information. A clinical implication of the results is that processing biases that extend beyond this healthy and adaptive process to enmesh the self-schema with pain and illness schemas could maintain and exacerbate distress and illness behavior in patients with chronic pain.
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Published date: 10 September 2001
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EMPIRICALLY DERIVED TAXONOMY, EMOTIONAL STROOP TASK, RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS, SELECTIVE MEMORY, PERSISTENT PAIN, SELF-REFERENCE, CLINICAL PAIN, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY, FUTURE-DIRECTIONS, DEPRESSION SCALE
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/469156
ISSN: 0033-2909
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