TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations of Pain Intensity and Frequency With Loneliness, Hostility, and Social Functioning
T2 - Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Within-Person Relationships
AU - Boggero, Ian A.
AU - Sturgeon, John A.
AU - Arewasikporn, Anne
AU - Castro, Saul A.
AU - King, Christopher D.
AU - Segerstrom, Suzanne C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, International Society of Behavioral Medicine.
PY - 2019/4/15
Y1 - 2019/4/15
N2 - Background: The current studies investigated associations between pain intensity and pain frequency with loneliness, hostility, and social functioning using cross-sectional, longitudinal, and within-person data from community-dwelling adults with varying levels of pain. Method: Secondary analysis of preexisting data was conducted. Study 1 investigated cross-sectional (baseline data: n = 741) and longitudinal (follow-up data: n = 549, observed range between baseline and follow-up: 6–53 months) associations. Study 2 tested within-person associations using daily diaries across 30 days from a subset of the participants in Study 1 (n = 69). Results: Cross-sectionally, pain intensity and frequency were associated with higher loneliness (β intensity = 0.16, β frequency = 0.17) and worse social functioning (β intensity = − 0.40, β frequency = − 0.34). Intensity was also associated with higher hostility (β = 0.11). Longitudinally, pain intensity at baseline predicted hostility (β = 0.19) and social functioning (β = − 0.20) at follow-up, whereas pain frequency only predicted social functioning (β = − 0.21). Within people, participants reported higher hostility (γ = 0.002) and worse social functioning (γ = − 0.013) on days with higher pain, and a significant average pain by daily pain interaction was found for loneliness. Pain intensity did not predict social well-being variables on the following day. Conclusion: Pain intensity and frequency were associated with social well-being, although the effects were dependent on the social well-being outcome and the time course being examined.
AB - Background: The current studies investigated associations between pain intensity and pain frequency with loneliness, hostility, and social functioning using cross-sectional, longitudinal, and within-person data from community-dwelling adults with varying levels of pain. Method: Secondary analysis of preexisting data was conducted. Study 1 investigated cross-sectional (baseline data: n = 741) and longitudinal (follow-up data: n = 549, observed range between baseline and follow-up: 6–53 months) associations. Study 2 tested within-person associations using daily diaries across 30 days from a subset of the participants in Study 1 (n = 69). Results: Cross-sectionally, pain intensity and frequency were associated with higher loneliness (β intensity = 0.16, β frequency = 0.17) and worse social functioning (β intensity = − 0.40, β frequency = − 0.34). Intensity was also associated with higher hostility (β = 0.11). Longitudinally, pain intensity at baseline predicted hostility (β = 0.19) and social functioning (β = − 0.20) at follow-up, whereas pain frequency only predicted social functioning (β = − 0.21). Within people, participants reported higher hostility (γ = 0.002) and worse social functioning (γ = − 0.013) on days with higher pain, and a significant average pain by daily pain interaction was found for loneliness. Pain intensity did not predict social well-being variables on the following day. Conclusion: Pain intensity and frequency were associated with social well-being, although the effects were dependent on the social well-being outcome and the time course being examined.
KW - Acute pain
KW - Biopsychosocial
KW - Community-dwelling adults
KW - Social well-being
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U2 - 10.1007/s12529-019-09776-5
DO - 10.1007/s12529-019-09776-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 30809770
AN - SCOPUS:85062642747
SN - 1070-5503
VL - 26
SP - 217
EP - 229
JO - International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 2
ER -