title: Time perspective as a predictor of acute postsurgical pain and coping with pain following abdominal surgery.
abstract: The aim of this study was to predict acute postsurgical pain and coping with pain following surgery based on preoperative time perspectives. Time perspective is a basic dimension of psychological time. It is a tendency to focus on a particular time area: the past, the present and the future.
  
  
  
  Seventy-six patients completed measures of time perspective and pain 24 h before abdominal surgery. During the 3 days after surgery, measures of pain and coping with pain were completed.
  
  
  
  We performed hierarchical regression analyses to identify predictors of acute postsurgical pain and how patients cope with it. These analyses suggested that a preoperative past-negative time perspective can be a predictor of postoperative pain level and catastrophizing after surgery.
  
  
  
  The findings of our study indicate the importance of time perspective, especially the past perspective, in dealing with postoperative pain.
  
  
  
  Our research indicates that a preoperative past-negative time perspective is a significant predictor of acute postsurgical pain intensity and the strongest predictor of pain catastrophizing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality Psychology, The Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sobol-Kwapinska
authors.affiliation: Department of Teaching Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, The Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Plotek
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Pain Research Group, The Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bąbel
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, The Poznan University of Medical Science, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cybulski
authors.affiliation: Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Treatment Department, The Heliodor Swiecicki Clinical Hospital at the Karol Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kluzik
authors.affiliation: Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Treatment Department, The Heliodor Swiecicki Clinical Hospital at the Karol Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krystianc
authors.affiliation: Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Treatment Department, The Heliodor Swiecicki Clinical Hospital at the Karol Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mandecki
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D059787:Acute Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D058443:Catastrophization / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult