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William H. O'Brien, Hilary J. Hassinger, and Elizabeth M. Semenchuk
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Coping (psychology) ,Social withdrawal ,Stressor ,Cold pressor test ,Cognition ,Mental arithmetic ,medicine.disease ,Developmental psychology ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Health psychology ,Migraine ,medicine ,Psychology ,General Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate how migraine headache sufferers and headache-free controls differ in their appraisal and coping responses to a cognitive (mental arithmetic) and a physical (cold pressor) laboratory stressor. Fifty-two women (26 migraine headache and 26 controls) completed the study. Results indicated that migraine sufferers rated the cold pressor task as significantly more painful compared to headache-free participants. Migraine headache sufferers also reported more wishful thinking and self-criticism in managing the mental arithmetic stressor. In addition, migraine participants reported the use of more social withdrawal and catastrophizing in managing stress and pain outside of the laboratory.
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- 1999
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