在慢性疼痛的背景下检查结构性和功能性社交网络特征的作用:以自我为中心的网络设计
Maité Van Alboom1, Fleur Baert1, Sónia F Bernardes2
1Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
The journal of pain
|April 12, 2024
概括
社交网络的特征影响慢性疼痛 (CP) 的幸福感. 较大的网络通过较少的冲突来减少痛苦,而较密集的网络通过更多的冲突来增加痛苦,从而影响心理健康结果.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 卫生科学 卫生科学 卫生科学
背景情况:
- 在慢性疼痛 (CP) 中,个人的幸福感和日常功能表现出显著的变化.
- 社会因素,包括社会融合,是这些差异的潜在解释.
- 在CP中,结构性 (大小,密度) 和功能性 (支持,冲突) 社交网络特征之间的相互作用仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 在初级与二级慢性疼痛中调查社交网络特征.
- 检查社交网络结构与精神困扰,功能和日常参与之间的关联.
- 确定社交网络功能是否调解了网络结构与心理健康或日常功能之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 采用以自我为中心的在线社交网络工具进行横截面研究.
- 从303名慢性疼痛患者 (CP) 收集的数据.
- 分析涉及ANCOVA和结构方程建模.
主要成果:
- 主要和次要CP组之间在网络大小或密度上没有显著差异.
- 初级CP个体报告的社会支持感受较低,冲突水平比二级CP个体更高.
- 较大的网络规模间接预测了较低的精神困扰 (通过减少冲突);较高的网络密度预测了增加的精神困扰 (通过增加冲突).
结论:
- 社会网络的结构和功能间接地与CP患者的心理健康有关.
- 社交网络中的冲突,与支持一起,显著调解精神困扰.
- 需要进一步的研究来阐明将社交网络特征与CP的福祉联系在一起的机制.
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