How an understanding of our ability to adhere to verbal rules can increase insight into (mal)adaptive functioning in chronic pain

Chronic pain is a common health problem in adults8 as well as in children42. Although many people seem to function well despite chronic pain, a considerable number experience restrictions in their daily functioning, from lower levels of physical activity, isolation from social activities, to increased absence from school or work1,46,66,88. Research has mainly focused on those risk factors that give rise to and exacerbate chronic pain-related disability, focusing on both intrapersonal, cognitive (e.g., catastrophic thoughts/worries about pain19,82), attentional (e.g., hypervigilance/selective attention to pain 18,83), affective (e.g., fear of pain78,88), behavioral (e.g., pain avoidance1,88), and interpersonal factors (e.g., spousal solicitousness, parental overprotective behavior28,60).

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