Causality, linearity, and circularity of relations between stressful life events and pain experience.
The aim of this paper is to point out a methodological problem found in the 1994 Naidoo and Pillay study on pain experience. The problem is that an equivocal interpretation of cause-and-effect relationships among variables can lead to testing of mistaken hypotheses in later researches.
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Institute of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Messina, Italy.
D015984:Causality; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010146:Pain