Cold pressor pain and psychophysiological activation in high and low pain catastrophizers

Pain catastrophizing is a robust predictor of heightened pain report. However, theoretical models addressing mechanisms of catastrophizing are lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine whether high and low catastrophizers manifest differential psychophysiological arousal patterns in an exper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haley, Tara A.
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Format: Others
Language:en
en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1287