TY - JOUR
T1 - Depressive personality vulnerability in chronic physical pain
T2 - Centrality of sociotropy
AU - Shahar, Golan
AU - Lerman, Sheera F.
AU - Topaz, Maayan
AU - Brill, Silviu
AU - Shalev, Hadar
AU - Rudich, Zvia
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Preparation of this manuscript was supported by Grant No. 751/08 from The Israel Science Foundation to Golan Shahar, as well as a more recent grant from the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE) in Israel for Golan Shahar, for the purpose of studying statistical suppression situations.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Objective: Chronic physical pain is one of modern medicine's principal challenges. Recently, there has been a keen research interest in the role of depressive personality vulnerability (DPV) in the course of chronic pain. This is the first attempt to examine the role of three leading DPV dimensions—sociotropy, autonomy, and self-criticism—in chronic pain. Method: Chronic pain patients (N = 428) were assessed four times as to their pain, disability, anxious depression, and pain-based catastrophizing. At Time 1, sociotropy, autonomy, and self-criticism were also assessed. The effects of sociotropy, autonomy, and self-criticism on pain, disability, anxious depression, and pain-based catastrophizing were examined using structural equation modeling analyses. Results: All DPV dimensions uniquely predicted Time 1, but not Time 2, anxious depression. Sociotropy predicted Time 1 pain and catastrophizing over and above anxious depression, as well as an increase in catastrophizing over time. Autonomy predicted a decrease in catastrophizing and disability, and Time 1 anxious depression predicted an increase in self-criticism. Conclusions: Sociotropy appears to be a unique dimension of DPV in chronic pain.
AB - Objective: Chronic physical pain is one of modern medicine's principal challenges. Recently, there has been a keen research interest in the role of depressive personality vulnerability (DPV) in the course of chronic pain. This is the first attempt to examine the role of three leading DPV dimensions—sociotropy, autonomy, and self-criticism—in chronic pain. Method: Chronic pain patients (N = 428) were assessed four times as to their pain, disability, anxious depression, and pain-based catastrophizing. At Time 1, sociotropy, autonomy, and self-criticism were also assessed. The effects of sociotropy, autonomy, and self-criticism on pain, disability, anxious depression, and pain-based catastrophizing were examined using structural equation modeling analyses. Results: All DPV dimensions uniquely predicted Time 1, but not Time 2, anxious depression. Sociotropy predicted Time 1 pain and catastrophizing over and above anxious depression, as well as an increase in catastrophizing over time. Autonomy predicted a decrease in catastrophizing and disability, and Time 1 anxious depression predicted an increase in self-criticism. Conclusions: Sociotropy appears to be a unique dimension of DPV in chronic pain.
KW - autonomy
KW - chronic pain
KW - depressive personality
KW - self-criticism
KW - sociotropy
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U2 - 10.1111/jopy.12365
DO - 10.1111/jopy.12365
M3 - Article
C2 - 29222926
AN - SCOPUS:85056152770
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 86
SP - 907
EP - 918
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 6
ER -