| Anger management style, blood pressure reactivity, and acute pain sensitivity: evidence for "Trait x Situation" models. | |
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PMID: 15184095 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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BACKGROUND: Anger management style is related to acute and chronic pain, but it is not clear whether anger arousal is needed for these associations to emerge or whether physiological mechanisms mediate these links. PURPOSE: "Trait x Situation" models were examined to determine whether relationships between anger-out and pain and anger-in and pain depended on anger provocation's preceding pain induction and whether pain sensitivity variance explained by anger management style overlapped with variance in harassment-induced blood pressure reactivity. METHODS: Healthy individuals (N = 53) underwent either mental arithmetic with harassment and then a cold pressor (MA/CP) or vice versa (CP/MA). The Spielberger Anger Expression Inventory assessed anger-out using the Anger-Out subscale (AOS) and anger-in using the Anger-In subscale (AIS). RESULTS: AOS x Order and AIS x Order interactions for pain tolerance emerged, such that (a) AOS was related negatively to tolerance among MA/CP participants, whereas AOS and tolerance were not related in CP/MA; (b) AIS was related positively to tolerance in MA/CP, whereas AIS was related negatively to tolerance in CP/MA; and (c) tolerance variance accounted for by AOS in MA/CP overlapped substantially with tolerance variance accounted for by diastolic blood pressure reactivity. CONCLUSIONS: Findings support the notion that anger management style affects pain and are consistent with evidence that deficient endogenous opioid functioning may be one mechanism through which anger-out is linked to both pain sensitivity and cardiovascular stress reactivity, a connection that appears most reliably when anger is provoked. |
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Authors:
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John W Burns; Stephen Bruehl; Cynthia Caceres |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Clinical Trial; Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine Volume: 27 ISSN: 0883-6612 ISO Abbreviation: Ann Behav Med Publication Date: 2004 Jun |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2004-06-08 Completed Date: 2004-09-14 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8510246 Medline TA: Ann Behav Med Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 195-204 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, USA. burnsj@finchcms.edu |
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Adaptation, Psychological* Adolescent Adult Anger* Blood Pressure* Female Humans Male Multivariate Analysis Pain / psychology* Pain Threshold / psychology Regression Analysis Stress, Psychological / physiopathology*, psychology |
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NS37164/NS/NINDS NIH HHS; NS38145/NS/NINDS NIH HHS |
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