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An exploratory investigation into the effects of mental defeat on pain threshold, pain rating, pain anticipation, and mood
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Collard, V. E. J., Gillett, J. L., Themelis, K. and Tang, Nicole K. Y. (2023) An exploratory investigation into the effects of mental defeat on pain threshold, pain rating, pain anticipation, and mood. Current Psychology, 42 . pp. 1748-1749. doi:10.1007/s12144-021-01548-3 ISSN 1046-1310.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01548-3
Abstract
In chronic pain, mental defeat is considered as a disabling type of self-evaluation triggered by repeated episodes of debilitating pain. This exploratory study experimentally tested the effect of an activated sense of defeat, as well as its interaction with pain catastrophizing, on pain and mood. Participants (Nā=ā71) were allocated to either high or low pain catastrophizing groups and then randomly assigned to receive either defeat or neutral manipulations. A cold pressor task administered before and after the thought manipulation measured pain threshold, alongside visual analogue scales for mental defeat, attention, pain intensity, pain anticipation as well as mood. Thought manipulation checks supported successful defeat activation. Defeat activation was associated with increased negative mood and attentional disengagement from the nociceptive stimuli, irrespective of pain catastrophizing tendency. There were no changes in pain threshold, pain or pain anticipation ratings. The results suggest that mental defeat can be experimentally activated using an autobiographical memory task and that an activated sense of defeat appears to operate independently from pain catastrophizing in influencing mood and attentional disengagement from the nociceptive stimuli. Future research can utilize our experimental approach to evaluate the effect of an activated sense of mental defeat in people with chronic pain, for whom the magnitude of pain, mood and attentional responses may be stronger and broader.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Current Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1046-1310 | ||||||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1748-1749 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s12144-021-01548-3 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 March 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 March 2021 | ||||||||
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