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Relationships Between Physical Symptoms, Emotional Distress, and Pain Appraisal in Fibromyalgia: The Moderator Effect of Alexithymia by M. Pilar Martínez; Ana I. Sánchez; Elena Miró; María J. Lami; Germán Prados; Ana Morales is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Relationships Between Physical Symptoms, Emotional Distress, and Pain Appraisal in Fibromyalgia: The Moderator Effect of Alexithymia about?
Alexithymia is a personality construct that is frequently identified in fibromyalgia (FM). Previous studies have explored the relationship between alexithymia and emotional distress in this disease. Yet, the additional link with factors of pain appraisal is unknown. This study examined the moderating effect of alexithymia in the relationship between emotional distress and pain appraisal in 97 FM women. A control group of 100 healthy women also participated in the study. All participants completed several self-reports about pain experience, sleep quality, impairment, emotional distress, pain appraisal, and alexithymia. FM women showed significantly more difficulty in identifying and describing feelings, but less externally oriented thinking than healthy women. In the clinical group, difficulty in identifying feelings and difficulty in describing feelings significantly correlated with lower sleep quality, higher anxiety and depression, and increased pain catastrophizing and fear of pain. Difficulty in describing feelings significantly correlated with higher pain experience and vigilance to pain. Externally oriented thinking was not correlated with any of the clinical variables. Diffi
Who reads Relationships Between Physical Symptoms, Emotional Distress, and Pain Appraisal in Fibromyalgia: The Moderator Effect of Alexithymia?
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- Author
- M. Pilar Martínez; Ana I. Sánchez; Elena Miró; María J. Lami; Germán Prados; Ana Morales
- Publisher
- Heldref Publishing; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Heldref Publications; Informa UK Limited; Publons (ISSN 0022-3980)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)