Fox, Verity;
(2024)
The role of social and interpersonal factors in chronic pain.
Doctoral thesis (D.Clin.Psy), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
The overall focus of this thesis was examining the role of social and interpersonal factors in chronic pain. The first paper is a conceptual introduction examining how social and interpersonal factors have been integrated into three psychological theories of chronic pain: the behavioural, cognitive-behavioural and the attachment diathesis model. Evidence for these models is considered and suggestions are made for how to further integrate these factors into the models. The second paper presents the findings of a longitudinal study using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and analysed data that covered a period of 10 years. Structural equational modelling was used to address the two research questions. 1. Whether the variable of parental bonding was associated with depression and whether this was mediated by the effects of parental bonding on pain factors: intercept and slope; 2. Whether the variable of spousal support was associated with depression and whether this was mediated by the effects of spousal support on pain factors: intercept and slope. For both of these sets of analyses, sex was used as a grouping variable to examine whether these relationships differed between men and women. The third paper is a critical appraisal of the process of carrying out the secondary data analysis, described in the second paper. It considers the process of secondary data analysis, including challenges encountered with learning new statistical techniques, handling missing data and the dangers of over-relying on statistical significance tests.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Clin.Psy |
| Title: | The role of social and interpersonal factors in chronic pain |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199443 |
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