Fibromyalgia and women's pursuit of personal goals: A daily process analysis.

Affleck, Glenn; Tennen, Howard; Urrows, Susan; Higgins, Pamela; Abeles, Moshe; Hall, Charles B.; Karoly, Paul; Newton, Craig

doi:10.1037/0278-6133.17.1.40

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“…The procedure was easily accepted and well tolerated by the subjects and produced reliable recordings: the 4 weeks of diary measurement accurately represented normal life in all subjects. The response rate of 88% is comparable to previous studies using electronic ESM-diaries Sorbi et al, 1996), although the use of a ®nan-cial reward for each completed diary yielded response rates as high as 99% (Af¯eck et al, , 1998. Nevertheless, in view of the relatively long period of sampling and the substantial number of questions per diary, compliance can be considered good.…”

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confidence: 57%

Electronic diary assessment of pain, disability and psychological adaptation in patients differing in duration of pain

Peters

Sorbi

Kruise

et al. 2000

Pain

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Computerized diary measurement of pain, disability and psychological adaptation was performed four times a day for 4 weeks in 80 patients with various duration of unexplained pain. Reported are (1) the temporal characteristics and stability of pain report during the 4-week measurement period, (2) the association between pain duration and pain report, disability and general psychopathology, and (3) the accordance between diary assessment versus questionnaire assessment of pain, disability and psychological adaptation. No evidence of instrument reactivity was found: pain report was stable across the 4-week period. However, pain report appeared to be highly variable both between and within days. About half the patients showed a clear increasing trend in pain during the day. Several differences were found between subgroups of patients varying in pain duration. Patients with less than 6 months of pain reported signi®cantly less pain intensity, disability and fatigue than patients whose pain persisted for more than 6 months. Pain coping and responses to pain behaviors by the spouse also differed for the subgroups: longer pain duration was associated with increased catastrophizing and solicitous responses from the spouse.Comparison of scores obtained with diary versus questionnaire assessment indicated moderate correlations for most variables. Retrospective (questionnaire) assessment of pain intensity yielded signi®cantly higher pain scores than diary assessment. q 2000 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

Electronic diary assessment of pain, disability and psychological adaptation in patients differing in duration of pain

Peters

Sorbi

Kruise

et al. 2000

Pain

157

123

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“…Goal variables have been identified as a key determinant of both health promotion and health endangerment (Ewart, 1991;Karoly, 1991) and have been linked to conditions as diverse as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, alcohol and tobacco abuse, chronic pain, and hypochondriasis. For example, Affleck et al (1998) found that perceived progress toward personal goals attenuated the effect of pain on well-being in women with fibromyalgia. Women who reported more progress toward their goals on a given day experienced an increase in emotional well-being for that day that was independent of pain or fatigue levels.…”

Section: Personal Goals In the Lives Of Persons With Neuromuscular DImentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal goals, life meaning, and virtue: Wellsprings of a positive life.

Emmons

2003

Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived.

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Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his weakness, his emptiness. (Pascal, The Pensees, 1660/1950.As far as we know humans are the only meaning-seeking species on the planet. Meaning-making is an activity that is distinctly human, a function of how the human brain is organized. The many ways in which humans conceptualize, create, and search for meaning has become a recent focus of behavioral science research on quality of life and subjective well-being. This chapter will review the recent literature on meaning-making in the context of personal goals and life purpose. My intention will be to document how meaningful living, expressed as the pursuit of personally significant goals, contributes to positive experience and to a positive life.

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“…From a telephone survey in a sample from the general population, it was found that the presence of persistent or chronic pain strongly interfered with the construal of work goals, as reflected in lower levels of work goal value and self-efficacy, and higher levels of goal conflict between work-related and other goals 52 . Using a more finegrained daily process analysis in women with fibromyalgia, obtained from diary assessments, Affleck and colleagues 53 found that on days on which pain increased during the day, more goal hindrance was experienced.…”

Section: Goal Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Self-Regulation Perspective on Avoidance and Persistence Behavior in Chronic Pain

Damme

Kindermans

2015

The Clinical Journal of Pain

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Objective: Behavioural factors such as avoidance and persistence have received massive theoretical and empirical attention in the attempts to explain chronic pain and disability. The determinants of these pain behaviours remain, however, poorly understood. We propose a self-regulation perspective to increase our understanding of pain-related avoidance and persistence.Methods: A narrative review.Results: We identified several theoretical views that may help explaining avoidance and persistence behaviour, and organized these views around 4 concepts central in self-regulation theories: (1) identity, (2) affective-motivational orientation, (3) goal cognitions, and (4) coping. The review shows that each of these self-regulation perspectives allows for a broadened view in which pain behaviors are not simply considered passive consequences of fear, but proactive strategies to regulate the self when challenged by pain.Discussion: Several implications and challenges arising from this review are discussed. In particular, a self-regulation perspective does not consider avoidance and persistence behaviour to be intrinsically adaptive or maladaptive, but argues that their effects on disability and wellbeing rather depend on the goals underlying these behaviours. Such view would require a shift in how avoidance and persistence behaviour are assessed and approached in clinical interventions.

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Fibromyalgia and women's pursuit of personal goals: A daily process analysis.

Cited by 140 publications

References 42 publications

Electronic diary assessment of pain, disability and psychological adaptation in patients differing in duration of pain

Electronic diary assessment of pain, disability and psychological adaptation in patients differing in duration of pain

Personal goals, life meaning, and virtue: Wellsprings of a positive life.

A Self-Regulation Perspective on Avoidance and Persistence Behavior in Chronic Pain

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