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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 African American and Caucasian College Women

Owen Richard Lightsey, Jr

The University of Memphis, olightsy{at}memphis.edu

Anita G. Wells

The University of Memphis

Mei-Chuan Wang

The University of Memphis

Todd Pietruszka

The University of Memphis

Ayse Çiftçi

The University of Memphis

Brett Stancil

The University of Memphis

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 pan, and emotion-oriented coping together accounted for 34% of the variance in PD among African American woman and 40% of the variance in PD among Caucasion 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.

This version was published on January 1, 2009

The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 37, No. 1, 116-146 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0011000007312991
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