Parental Injustice Appraisals in the Context of Child Pain: Examining the Construct and Criterion Validity of the IEQ-Pc and IEQ-Ps.

Abstract

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Mothers’ appraisals of injustice in the context of their child’s chronic pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

“…This is the first published phenomenological exploration of parental appraisals of injustice regarding their child's pain, thus, contributing to existing knowledge in several ways. These results support preliminary findings highlighting the relevance of injustice in the parental experience of paediatric chronic pain (Baert et al., 2019; Miller et al., 2016, 2018). In line with earlier work (Mohammadi et al., 2016; Monin & Schultz, 2009), parental negative illness‐related appraisals may challenge or even undermine parental functioning and subsequently impact negatively upon child well‐being.…”

“…More recently, research has also examined the impact of parental pain‐related injustice appraisals, an appraisal cognition comprising elements of the severity and irreparability of loss due to pain and a sense of blame or unfairness (Mohammadi et al., 2016; Sullivan et al., 2008), on both child and parental functioning (Baert et al., 2019; Miller, Scott, Trost, & Hirsh, 2016; Miller et al., 2018; Mohammadi et al., 2016). This research has shown higher levels of parental injustice appraisals to be associated with greater child pain intensity, disability and quality of life.…”

“…Currently, what is known about parental perceptions of injustice is based on the use of the Injustice Experience Questionnaire (IEQ; Sullivan et al., 2008; Sullivan, Scott, & Trost, 2012; Yamada et al, 2016) which was developed for use in adult chronic pain samples to measure injustice appraisals in relation to blame, loss and unfairness related to personal pain experience. More recent evidence suggests that parents tend to think about their child's pain in a more diverse way, encompassing both their perspective of themselves as parents as well as their child (Baert et al., 2019). There is also good evidence to suggest that parents think about their child's pain in a way that implies unique sources of injustice that may be relevant to the parent, such as fighting for resources, the child's condition being questioned and the perceived inability to fulfil one's parental role (Jordan et al., 2007, 2016).…”

Child pain‐related injustice appraisals mediate the relationship between just‐world beliefs and pain‐related functioning

“…The participants in this study were drawn from a sample which has previously been reported on by Baert et al (2019). Research questions assessed and analyses performed in the current study are different from those reported before.…”

Parental (non‐)pain attending verbalizations moderate the relationship between child attention and memory bias for pain

“…Participants were recruited from a sample of school children (age range: 8-16 years) and both their parents who had participated in an earlier questionnaire study (Baert et al, 2019), and had provided informed consent to be re-contacted for future research participation (N = 198). Participants had originally been recruited via 9 Flemish primary and secondary schools.…”