TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of pain personification in pain-related depression
T2 - An object relations perspective
AU - Schattner, Emanuel
AU - Shahar, Golan
N1 - Funding Information:
Shahar) of the Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. This article is based in part on Emanuel Schattner’s doctoral dissertation, supervised by Golan Shahar. This study was funded by a research grant to Golan Shahar from the Israeli Science Foundation. We thank Zvia Rudich, MD, for providing access to the patients studied, and Sheera Lerman, MA, for managing the larger project based on which the study has been conducted. Address correspondence to Emanuel Schattner or Golan Shahar, the Stress & Personality Lab, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. E-mail: e.schattner@gmail.com or Golan.sha-har878@gmail.com.
PY - 2011/4/29
Y1 - 2011/4/29
N2 - Chronic pain may be internalized and integrated into the sufferer's object-relations, thereby influencing sufferer's depression. To examine this, fifty-five women suffering from chronic pain were assessed as to their pain-personification, pain intensity, depression, anxiety, and pain related distress. The assessment protocol included an innovative self-report measure, the Pain Personification Questionnaire (PPQ), measuring pain as an internal "bad" object. Controlling for level of pain intensity, we found that the PPQ predicts depression, illness intrusiveness, and pain-related distress, but not anxiety. These findings encourage an objectrelations approach to the understanding and treatment of depression in chronic illness.
AB - Chronic pain may be internalized and integrated into the sufferer's object-relations, thereby influencing sufferer's depression. To examine this, fifty-five women suffering from chronic pain were assessed as to their pain-personification, pain intensity, depression, anxiety, and pain related distress. The assessment protocol included an innovative self-report measure, the Pain Personification Questionnaire (PPQ), measuring pain as an internal "bad" object. Controlling for level of pain intensity, we found that the PPQ predicts depression, illness intrusiveness, and pain-related distress, but not anxiety. These findings encourage an objectrelations approach to the understanding and treatment of depression in chronic illness.
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U2 - 10.1521/psyc.2011.74.1.14
DO - 10.1521/psyc.2011.74.1.14
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955154978
VL - 74
SP - 14
EP - 20
JO - Psychiatry (New York)
JF - Psychiatry (New York)
SN - 0033-2747
IS - 1
ER -
