Thursday, December 31, 2015

Development and Initial Validation of the Pain Resilience Scale

Over the past decade, the role of positive psychology in pain experience has gained increasing attention. One such positive factor, identified as resilience, has been defined as the ability to maintain positive emotional and physical functioning despite physical or psychological adversity. Although cross-situational measures of resilience have been shown to be related to pain, it was hypothesized that a pain-specific resilience measure would serve as a stronger predictor of acute pain experience.

from The Journal of Pain http://ift.tt/1mU1Nq5
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