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An Experimental Paradigm for the Prediction of Post-Operative Pain (PPOP)
Published on: January 27, 2010
[Personality and coping in neuropathic chronic pain: a predictable divorce]
José F Soriano Pastor1, Vicente Monsalve Dolz, Elena Ibáñez Guerra
1Universidad de Valencia, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario Valencia, Facultad de Psicología, Valencia, Spain. jose.f.soriano@uv.es
Abstract:
We approach the problem about relationships between personality dimensions and the use of coping strategies in chronic pain patients. The most frequently used theoretical model in the area of stress and its relation to pain is the transactional model, taking into account that the incorporation of personality traits improves predictions via coping in the stress process. Following the Big Five model, the relationships between personality and coping strategies in patients with chronical neuropathic pain were established. The results showed slight relationships between the Big-Five dimensions and coping. A vulnerable personality profile in patients with chronic neuropathic pain was obtained, consisting of high neuroticism, low extraversion, openness to experience and responsibility, and moderate agreeableness.
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