EMOTIONAL AND SENSORY FOCUS AS MEDIATORS OF DENTAL PAIN AMONG PATIENTS DIFFERING IN DESIRED AND FELT DENTAL CONTROL

被引：31

作者：

BARON, RS

LOGAN, H

HOPPE, S

机构：

[1] Department of Psychology, University of Iowa

[2] Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Iowa

来源：

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY | 1993年 / 12卷 / 05期

关键词：

CONTROL; PAIN; SENSORY FOCUS; META-ANALYSIS; INFORMATION; ANXIETY; MANAGEMENT; LONELINESS; ATTENTION; TOLERANCE; THREAT; SCALES; STRESS;

D O I：

10.1037/0278-6133.12.5.381

中图分类号：

B849 [应用心理学];

学科分类号：

040203 ;

摘要：

Giving patients instructions to focus on sensory (vs. emotional) stimuli during a root canal procedure significantly reduced self-reported pain, but only among patients who were classified as having strong desire for control and low felt control in dental situations. Among patients with low felt control and low desire for control, sensory-focus instructions produced greater pain reports than did emotion-focus instructions. Finally, high desire-low felt patients reported higher levels of expected pain before treatment than did other patient subgroups. These data suggested limiting conditions for H. Leventhal's (1982) theory of emotion and supported the idea that desire for control might moderate the effects of perceived control.

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页码：381 / 389

页数：9