This study examined the factor structure of Pain Catastrophizing Scale in three different Dutch-speaking samples: 550 pain-free students, 162 chronic low back pain patients, and 100 fibromyalgia patients. Confirmatory analyses were used to compare models catastrophizing (one factor, two oblique factors, factors), investigate invariance across samples. The results indicated that a three-factor model with four-item rumination three-item magnification six-item helplessness provided best fit...

The present study aimed at clarifying the precise role of pain catastrophizing, pain-related fear and personality dimensions in vigilance to severity by means structural equation modelling. A questionnaire survey was conducted 122 patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain. Results revealed that catastrophizing mediated relationship between neuroticism Furthermore, found be associated heightened severity. Finally, we moderated catastrophic thinking about results strongly support idea...

According to models of attention and emotion, threat captures holds attention. In behavioral tasks, robust evidence has been found for attentional holding but not capture by threat. An important explanation the absence effects is that visual stimuli used posed no genuine The present study investigated whether cues signal an aversive white noise can elicit effects. Cues presented in task were simultaneously provided with a value through conditioning procedure. Response latencies showed...

(1) To investigate the factor structure of Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) in a Dutch-speaking sample chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients using confirmatory analysis, (2) to examine whether internal TSK extends another group fibromyalgia (FM) patients, and (3) stability both patient groups multi-sample analysis.TSK-data from 8 studies collected Dutch Flemish were pooled. For 188 CLBP 89 FM complete data available. Confirmatory analyses performed assess 4 models kinesiophobia, which...

This paper reports an experimental investigation of attentional engagement to and disengagement from pain. Thirty-seven pain-free volunteers performed a cueing task in which they were instructed respond visual target stimuli, i.e. the words ‘pain’ ‘tone’. Targets preceded by pain stimuli or tone as cues. Participants characterized high low catastrophizers, using self-reports. We found that effect upon detection was differential for catastrophizers. Analyses revealed similar amount both...

Attentional allocation to emotional stimuli is often proposed be driven by valence and in particular negativity. However, many negative are also arousing leaving the question whether or arousal accounts for this effect. The authors examined level of influences spatial attention using a modified cueing task. Participants responded targets that were preceded cues consisting pictures varying on valence. Response latencies showed disengagement was slower high than low arousal. effect independent...

Research on the effectiveness of distraction as a method pain control is inconclusive. One mechanism pertains to motivational relevance tasks. In this study motivation engage in task during was experimentally manipulated. Undergraduate students (N=73) participated cold pressor test (CPT) and were randomly assigned three groups: distraction-only group performed tone-detection CPT, motivated-distraction same received monetary reward for good performance, did not perform task. Results indicated...

This paper reports an experimental investigation of engagement with and disengagement from a threatening cue pain. As most paradigms in pain research only provide overall index attentional deployment by pain-related information, new paradigm was developed that allowed independent cues. Forty pain-free volunteers performed cueing task which they had to detect targets tone as quickly accurately possible. The target stimuli were preceded cues (the word ‘pain’), ‘tone’), or neutral (a series the...

Distraction is a commonly used strategy to control pain. However there doubt about its effectiveness as clinical tool, and results from both experimental studies remain inconclusive. Recent theoretical advancements suggest that distraction of attention may be less effective when pain threatening. The aim the present study was experimentally investigate this hypothesis. Pain-free volunteers (N=101) participated in cold pressor test. Half participants simultaneously performed cognitive task,...

Research suggests that threatening information captures attention more rapidly than neutral information.However, in most studies threat stimuli differ perceptually from and are instrumental to perform the task, leaving question unanswered whether is sufficient capture attention.In Experiment 1, we designed a visual search task with of equal salience (colored circles) have potential lead efficient (10 ms/item).In 2, one colors (Conditioned Stimulus, CS+) was made by means...

Although many studies have investigated the effectiveness of distraction as a method pain control, cognitive processes by which attentional re-direction is achieved, remain unclear. In this study role executive functioning abilities (inhibition, task switching and working memory) in investigated. We hypothesized that terms reduction would be larger participants with better abilities. Ninety-one undergraduate students first performed tasks, subsequently participated cold pressor (CPT)....

This experiment investigated pain-related avoidance behavior in context of competing goals. Participants (N=56) were presented trials 2 different tasks which 1 task could produce pain. They free to decide whether or not perform these tasks. In half the participants, a goal was activated by instructing them that they would receive monetary reward corresponding number pain actually performed (competition group). other no installed (control Results showed competition group less frequent than...

Recent studies have suggested that the anticipation of pain may modulate spatial attention. However, it is possible this modulation reflects a general effect anticipating somatosensory stimulation, without being pain-specific. In present study, we therefore compared stimulation on attention between two groups, using conditioned signals in cueing paradigm. group, predicted painful electrocutaneous whereas control non-painful vibrotactile stimulation. Tests both groups showed attentional...