Keogh E, Hatton K, Ellery D
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London, UK.
Pain. 2000 Mar;85(1-2):225-30. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3959(99)00270-5.
The aim of the current investigation was to compare the effects of two different attentional strategies (focused vs. avoidance) on how males and females respond to experimentally induced pain. One hundred healthy adults were instructed to either attend towards or away from cold pressor pain. Measures of pain tolerance, pain threshold and recovery were taken, as were self-report measures of sensory and affective pain experiences. As expected, gender was found to moderate tolerance to pain: males were found to be more tolerant to cold pressor pain than females. With respect to the self-report measures, males reported less sensory pain when they attended toward the pain than when they avoided it. However, a similar effect was not found in women, suggesting that attentional focusing may only be a useful strategy for males. These results are discussed in light of previous research.
当前研究的目的是比较两种不同的注意力策略（专注与回避）对男性和女性如何应对实验诱导疼痛的影响。一百名健康成年人被指示要么专注于冷压痛，要么回避冷压痛。记录了疼痛耐受性、疼痛阈值和恢复情况的测量值，以及感觉和情感疼痛体验的自我报告测量值。正如预期的那样，发现性别会调节对疼痛的耐受性：发现男性比女性对冷压痛更具耐受性。关于自我报告测量值，男性在专注于疼痛时报告的感觉疼痛比回避疼痛时少。然而，在女性中未发现类似效果，这表明注意力集中可能只是男性的一种有用策略。根据先前的研究对这些结果进行了讨论。
