Clinical and evoked pain, personality traits, and emotional states: can familial confounding explain the associations?

Pain is a complex phenomenon influenced by context and person-specific factors. Affective dimensions of pain involve both enduring personality traits and fleeting emotional states. We examined how personality traits and emotional states are linked with clinical and evoked pain in a twin sample. 99 female twin pairs were evaluated for clinical and evoked pain using the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) and dolorimetry, and completed the 120-item International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), and ratings of stress and mood. Using a co-twin control design we examined a) the relationship of personality traits and emotional states with clinical and evoked pain and b) whether genetics and common environment (i.e. familial factors) may account for the associations. Neuroticism was associated with the sensory component of the MPQ; this relationship was not confounded by familial factors. None of the emotional state measures was associated with the MPQ. PANAS negative affect was associated with lower evoked pressure pain threshold and tolerance; these associations were confounded by familial factors. There were no associations between IPIP traits and evoked pain. A relationship exists between neuroticism and clinical pain that is not confounded by familial factors. There is no similar relationship between negative emotional states and clinical pain. In contrast, the relationship between negative emotional states and evoked pain is strong while the relationship with enduring personality traits is weak. The relationship between negative emotional states and evoked pain appears to be non-causal and due to familial factors..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:78

Enthalten in:

Journal of psychosomatic research - 78(2015), 1, Seite 58-63

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Strachan, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Poeschla, Brian [Sonstige Person]
Dansie, Elizabeth [Sonstige Person]
Succop, Annemarie [Sonstige Person]
Chopko, Laura [Sonstige Person]
Afari, Niloofar [Sonstige Person]

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

BKL:

44.91

77.70

77.84

Themen:

Anxiety Disorders - complications
Pain - physiopathology
Pain - psychology
Stress, Psychological - etiology
Twins - psychology

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.09.019

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1965964826