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First published on April 4, 2008
The Counseling Psychologist 2008, doi:10.1177/0011000007312991
© 2008 Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association

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Emotion-Oriented Coping, Avoidance Coping, and Fear of Pain as Mediators of the Relationship Between Positive Affect, Negative Affect, and Pain-Related Distress Among Black and White College Women

Owen Richard Lightsey Jr.*, Anita G. Wells, Mei-Chuan Wang, Todd Pietruszka, Ayse Ciftci, and Brett Stancil

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: olightsy{at}memphis.edu.


  Abstract
The authors tested whether coping styles and fear of pain mediate the relationship between positive affect and negative affect on one hand and pain-related distress (PD) on the other. Among African American and Caucasian female college students, negative affect, fear of pain, and emotion-oriented coping together accounted for 34% of the variance in PD among African American women and 40% of the variance in PD among Caucasian women. Emotion-oriented coping and fear of pain fully mediated the relationship between negative affect and PD among Caucasian women and partly mediated the relationship between negative affect and PD among African American women. Results suggest that reducing college women’s reliance on emotion-oriented coping and their fears of pain may help reduce PD.


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