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Kennedy CE, Moore PJ, Peterson RA, et al. What makes people anxious about pain? How personality and perception combine to determine pain anxiety responses in clinical and non-clinical populations. Anxiety Stress Coping. 2011;24(2):179-200doi: 10.1080/10615806.2010.493608.
Kennedy, C. E., Moore, P. J., Peterson, R. A., Katzman, M. A., Vermani, M., & Charmak, W. D. (2011). What makes people anxious about pain? How personality and perception combine to determine pain anxiety responses in clinical and non-clinical populations. Anxiety, stress, and coping, 24(2), 179-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2010.493608
Kennedy, Caitlin E, et al. "What makes people anxious about pain? How personality and perception combine to determine pain anxiety responses in clinical and non-clinical populations." Anxiety, stress, and coping vol. 24,2 (2011): 179-200. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2010.493608
Kennedy CE, Moore PJ, Peterson RA, Katzman MA, Vermani M, Charmak WD. What makes people anxious about pain? How personality and perception combine to determine pain anxiety responses in clinical and non-clinical populations. Anxiety Stress Coping. 2011 Mar;24(2):179-200. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2010.493608. PMID: 20614352.
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Anxiety Stress Coping. 2011 Mar;24(2):179-200. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2010.493608.

What makes people anxious about pain? How personality and perception combine to determine pain anxiety responses in clinical and non-clinical populations.

Anxiety, stress, and coping

Caitlin E Kennedy, Philip J Moore, Rolf A Peterson, Martin A Katzman, Monica Vermani, William D Charmak

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  1. Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

PMID: 20614352 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2010.493608

Abstract

Although anxiety has both dispositional and situational determinants, little is known about how individuals' anxiety-related sensitivities and their expectations about stressful events actually combine to determine anxiety. This research used Information Integration Theory and Functional Measurement to assess how participants' physical concerns sensitivity (PCS) and event expectancy are cognitively integrated to determine their anxiety about physical pain. Two studies were conducted - one with university students and other with anxiety clinic patients - in which participants were presented with multiple scenarios of a physically painful event, each representing a different degree of event probability from which subjective expectancies were derived. Independent variables included PCS (low, moderate, and high) and event expectancy (low-, medium-, high-, and non-probability information). Participants were asked to indicate their projected anxiety (dependent measure) in each expectancy condition in this 3 × 4 mixed, quasi-experimental design. The results of both studies strongly suggest that PCS and event expectancy are integrated additively to produce these pain anxiety scores. Additional results and their implications for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders are also discussed.

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