Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071, Málaga, Spain.
Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2013 Mar;17(3):312. doi: 10.1007/s11916-012-0312-9.
Several empirical studies have shown that personal characteristics act as differential variables, which determine how pain is experienced and how the chronic pain patient adjusts to pain. The main aim of the present research is to review the relationships between some dispositional characteristics and pain adjustment. Taking into account the empirical literature, 6 personality traits that are relevant to the pain experience have been selected: neuroticism, anxiety sensitivity, and experiential avoidance as risk factors that increase the probability of patients experiencing a disability; and extraversion, optimism, and resilience as personal resources that increase their capacity to manage pain effectively. The results suggest that it would be useful to include an assessment of normal personality structure during the multi-dimensional evaluation of a person with chronic pain. Understanding these individual personality characteristics will aid in designing pain intervention programs and help predict possible treatment outcomes.
几项实证研究表明，个人特征是差异变量，决定了疼痛的体验方式以及慢性疼痛患者对疼痛的适应方式。本研究的主要目的是回顾一些性格特征与疼痛适应之间的关系。考虑到实证文献，选择了与疼痛体验相关的 6 种性格特征：神经质、焦虑敏感性和体验回避作为增加残疾患者疼痛概率的风险因素；外向、乐观和适应力作为增强他们有效管理疼痛能力的个人资源。结果表明，在对慢性疼痛患者进行多维评估时，纳入对正常人格结构的评估将是有益的。了解这些个体的人格特征将有助于设计疼痛干预方案，并有助于预测可能的治疗结果。
