Resilience, automatic thoughts, distress, neuroticism in people with pain and role limitations due to physical health problems
Resilience, automatic thoughts, distress, neuroticism in people with pain and role limitations due to physical health problems

Summary/Abstract: People with pain and role limitations due to physical health problems display a higher risk of automatic thoughts and distress. In this context, the neurotic factor significantly contributes to the increase in emotional distress, while resilience plays a protective role on the cognitive and emotional system. Relationships among pain, resilience, automatic thoughts, neuroticism and distress have been researched in this study. We have used a questionnaire-based investigation for each construct. Results have shown that automatic thoughts and pain are predictors for both emotional distress as a whole and for its sub-factors: functional fear and sadness. The results also showed that resilience is a functional and dysfunctional predictor and that neuroticism is a predictor for functional fear. Studies have shown that resilience has a favorable impact on health, reducing emotional stress. Pain, automatic thoughts, neuroticism and distress represent factors of psychological vulnerability.

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