title: There's More Than Catastrophizing in Chronic Pain: Low Frustration Tolerance and Self-Downing Also Predict Mental Health in Chronic Pain Patients.
abstract: Among the potential range of irrational beliefs that could be used as predictors of physical and mental health, catastrophizing is the process that has received most attention in chronic pain research. Other irrational processes such as demandingness, low frustration tolerance, and self-downing have rarely been studied. The goal of this study was to explore whether this wider range of beliefs is associated with health in chronic pain patients beyond catastrophizing. A total of 492 chronic pain patients completed a measure of irrational beliefs, a measure of physical and mental health, and a numerical rating scale designed to assess pain intensity and interference. Irrational processes were more strongly associated with mental than with physical health. Low frustration tolerance and self-downing were found to be significantly related to mental health even after controlling for the effect of catastrophizing. Processes other than catastrophizing appear to have potentially important relationships with the mental health of people with chronic pain. These results may offer new intervention targets for practitioners.
authors.affiliation: Pain Unit, Department of Traumatology, Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain. carlos.suso.ribera@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Suso-Ribera
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Montsant
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jornet-Gibert
authors.affiliation: Pain Unit, Department of Traumatology, Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Maria Victoria
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Ribera Canudas
authors.affiliation: Health Psychology Section, Psychology Department, King's College London & INPUT Pain Management Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
authors.forename: Lance M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: McCracken
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.|Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Research Institute (IR3C), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maydeu-Olivares
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.|Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Research Institute (IR3C), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gallardo-Pujol
mesh_terms: D058443:Catastrophization; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D005639:Frustration; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health
keywords: Catastrophizing; Chronic pain; General Attitudes and Beliefs Scale; Irrational beliefs; Mental health