Emotional Dynamics in Fibromyalgia: Pain, Fatigue, and Stress Moderate Momentary Associations Between Positive and Negative Emotions.

Affective disruptions, particularly deficits in positive affect, are characteristic of fibromyalgia (FM). The Dynamic Model of Affect provides some explanations of affective disruptions in FM, suggesting that the inverse association between positive and negative emotions is stronger when individuals with FM are under greater stress than usual. However, our understanding of the types of stressors and negative emotions that contribute to these affective dynamics is limited.

Active or passive pain coping: Which predicts daily physical and psychosocial functioning in people with chronic pain and spinal cord injury?

Purpose/objective: Despite medical and psychotherapeutic treatments, chronic pain is one of the most challenging and disabling conditions for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). A growing body of research has demonstrated that pain coping strategies are effective for the adjustment of pain. However, we still lack an understanding of how passive pain coping and active pain coping relate to daily physical and psychosocial functioning for people with chronic pain and SCI.

Linguistic indicators of chronic pain acceptance in individuals with spinal cord injury.

Objective: Pain acceptance is a robust predictor of adjustment to chronic pain, including pain in those with spinal cord injury (SCI). This preliminary study aimed to identify linguistic patterns indicative of chronic pain acceptance to gain new insights into the underlying cognitive-emotional process of this construct.

Method: Individuals with SCI and chronic pain (N = 30) completed the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) and a semistructured interview about their pain.

A review of the use and psychometric properties of the chronic pain acceptance questionnaires.

This review summarizes data presented in published psychometric papers evaluating the measurement properties of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) measures. The CPAQ measures quantify levels of acceptance of chronic pain across two facets of acceptance: willingness to experience rather than avoid or control pain and engagement in daily activities and life goals despite the presence of pain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

The Role of Environmental Distractions in the Experience of Fibrofog in Real-World Settings.

Objective: Perceived cognitive dysfunction in people with fibromyalgia (FM), "fibrofog," is commonly reported and has been demonstrated in neurocognitive testing. Distractibility and inattention have been implicated as potential contributors to fibrofog, but the role of environmental distractions has not been explored. In this study, ambulatory assessment methods were used to examine whether FM is related to more environmental distractions and to examine the impact of distractions on subjective and objective cognitive functioning.

Fibrofog in Daily Life: An Examination of Ambulatory Subjective and Objective Cognitive Function in Fibromyalgia.

Objective: Perceived cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia (FM), "fibrofog," is common. Prior laboratory-based studies have limited our understanding of cognitive function in FM in daily life. The objective of this study was to explore levels of subjective and objective cognitive functioning and the association between subjective and objective aspects of cognition in people with and without FM in the lived environment.

Pain Acceptance in People With Chronic Pain and Spinal Cord Injury: Daily Fluctuation and Impacts on Physical and Psychosocial Functioning.

Daily fluctuation in pain acceptance and its impact on the physical and psychosocial functioning of individuals living with spinal cord injury (SCI) and chronic pain has not been examined. We used end-of-day diaries and multilevel modeling to examine the moderating effect of within- and between-person pain acceptance on associations between pain and physical and psychosocial functioning. Individuals with SCI and chronic pain (N = 124) completed 7 days of end-of-day diaries, which included measures of pain acceptance, pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, pain interference, participation in social roles and activities, depressive symptoms, and positive affect and well-being.