TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-criticism interacts with the affective component of pain to predict depressive symptoms in female patients
AU - Lerman, Sheera F.
AU - Shahar, G.
AU - Rudich, Z.
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this work was received by the Goldman Fund of the Health Science Faculty, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel to Zvia Rudich (Principal Investigator) and Golan Shahar (Co-Principal Investigator) and by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Grant No. 751/08) to Golan Shahar. This report is based in part on Sheera F. Lerman’s doctoral dissertation, supervised by Golan Shahar. Special thanks to Dr. Michal Granot who kindly commented on an earlier draft of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2011 European Federation of International Association for the Study of Pain Chapters.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This longitudinal study examined the role of the trait of self-criticism as a moderator of the relationship between the affective and sensory components of pain, and depression. One hundred and sixty-three chronic pain patients treated at a specialty pain clinic completed self-report questionnaires at two time points assessing affective and sensory components of pain, depression, and self-criticism. Hierarchical linear regression analysis revealed a significant 3-way interaction between self-criticism, affective pain and gender, whereby women with high affective pain and high self-criticism demonstrated elevated levels of depression. Our findings are the first to show within a broad, comprehensive model, that selfcriticism is activated by the affective, but not sensory component of pain in leading to depressive symptoms, and highlight the need to assess patients’ personality as part of an effective treatment plan.
AB - This longitudinal study examined the role of the trait of self-criticism as a moderator of the relationship between the affective and sensory components of pain, and depression. One hundred and sixty-three chronic pain patients treated at a specialty pain clinic completed self-report questionnaires at two time points assessing affective and sensory components of pain, depression, and self-criticism. Hierarchical linear regression analysis revealed a significant 3-way interaction between self-criticism, affective pain and gender, whereby women with high affective pain and high self-criticism demonstrated elevated levels of depression. Our findings are the first to show within a broad, comprehensive model, that selfcriticism is activated by the affective, but not sensory component of pain in leading to depressive symptoms, and highlight the need to assess patients’ personality as part of an effective treatment plan.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ejpain.2011.05.007
DO - 10.1016/j.ejpain.2011.05.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 21664158
AN - SCOPUS:84861742759
SN - 1090-3801
VL - 16
SP - 115
EP - 122
JO - European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom)
JF - European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom)
IS - 1
ER -