Kerns R D, Rosenberg R, Jacob M C
West Haven VA Medical Center, Connecticut 06516.
J Behav Med. 1994 Feb;17(1):57-67. doi: 10.1007/BF01856882.
Intensity of angry feelings and styles of expressing anger were examined for their relationship to measures of the chronic pain experience. Subjects were 142 chronic pain patients. Multiple regression analyses revealed that a style of inhibiting the expression of angry feelings was the strongest predictor of reports of pain intensity and pain behavior among a group of variables including demographics, pain history, depression, anger intensity, and other styles of anger expression. In a similar manner anger intensity contributed significantly to predictions of perceived pain interference and activity level. More conservative hierarchical regression analyses supported these findings. Results are consistent with explanatory models of pain and disability that hypothesize an etiologic role of a pervasive inability to express intense negative emotions, particularly anger.
研究了愤怒情绪的强度和表达愤怒的方式与慢性疼痛体验指标之间的关系。研究对象为142名慢性疼痛患者。多元回归分析显示，在包括人口统计学、疼痛史、抑郁、愤怒强度以及其他愤怒表达方式在内的一组变量中，抑制愤怒情绪表达的方式是疼痛强度报告和疼痛行为的最强预测因素。以类似方式，愤怒强度对感知到的疼痛干扰和活动水平的预测有显著贡献。更为保守的分层回归分析支持了这些发现。研究结果与疼痛和残疾的解释模型一致，这些模型假设普遍无法表达强烈负面情绪，尤其是愤怒，在病因学上起到了作用。
