본문 바로가기
  • Home

The Relationships between Emotional Expressions, Interpersonal Problems and Pain Experience

  • Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice
  • 2018, 4(2), pp.281~305
  • DOI : 10.15842/CPKJOURNAL.PUB.4.2.281
  • Publisher : Korean Clinical Psychology Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > Clinical Psychology
  • Received : July 11, 2018
  • Accepted : August 22, 2018

Jisoo Lee 1 Hoon-Jin Lee 2 Joon Deuk Lee 2

1서울대학교 심리학과
2서울대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study aims to understand college students’ general pain experience in a broad context, including emotional expressions, interpersonal problems, pain catastrophizing, perceived entitlement to pain-related support, and pain-related support seeking behavior. One hundred and sixty nine college students who reported experiencing pain participated in the study. Ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and anger suppression significantly predicted pain catastrophizing even when the effect of pain severity was controlled. All domains of interpersonal problems were significantly correlated with pain catastrophizing tendency, but only friendly-submissive interpersonal problems were related to perceived entitlement to pain-related support. This study suggests that one’s general psychosocial features including emotional expressions and interpersonal problems can influence the experiences of pain and its expressions to others. The results would contribute to identifying a therapeutic entry point for a person suffering from pain. The implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.