Abstract
The objectives of the present study are to investigate the interrelations of measures of adjustment and cognitive processes and to investigate the role of an understudied variable, ego development, in adjustment to chronic pain. Bivariate correlation analyses based upon 66 patients with chronic pain conditions corroborate predictions of significant overlap between measures of psychological adjustment and certain measures of cognitive processes, while controlling for pain duration and severity. In addition, canonical correlation analyses demonstrated a compelling 0.89 correlation between composites of psychological adjustment and a set of predictors that include cognitive processes and ego development. Although ego development did not provide a significant amount of unique variance to the overall relationship between psychological adjustment and the set of cognitive process predictors, it appears that features of ego development are captured by the measures of cognitive processes. Hence, there is some theoretical support for the way levels of ego development are expressed in thought patterns.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 285-298 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Psychology, Health and Medicine |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1998 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Applied Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
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