Catastrophizing, Pain, and Social Adjustment in Scleroderma: Relationships With Educational Level

• DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000210918.26159.94
• Publication Date: 2006-08-21T08:01:31Z
• Authors: Robert R. Edwards; Layne Goble; Amy Kwan; Ian Kudel; Lynanne McGuire; Leslie Heinberg; Fred Wigley; Jennifer Haythorn...
• Keywords: Pain catastrophizing; Moderation

Low educational attainment is related to numerous adverse health outcomes, and some evidence suggests that psychosocial variables may mediate education's effects. Moreover, the relationship between functioning health-related outcomes be moderated by level, with individuals lower in formal education being more susceptible deleterious effects of negative cognitive affective states. The present study sought characterize such interrelationships level pain-related catastrophizing.We investigated association self-reported pain social disability, we evaluated catastrophizing's potential mediating role those associations, also as a moderator on disability sample patients scleroderma, frequently painful autoimmune disorder.First, education-related differences report were accounted for catastrophizing depression. Second, after controlling demographic factors, disease severity, depressive symptoms, catastrophizing, affect, function. Specifically, was highly associated greater reporting among less education. In addition, inversely correlated disruption education.Collectively, findings support multiple models interaction cognitive/affective functioning, though both mediational moderational analyses, levels act risk factor outcomes.