Implicit attitude towards pictures of back‐stressing activities in pain‐free subjects and patients with low back pain: an affective priming study

European Journal of Pain - Tập 7 - Trang 33-42 - 2003
Liesbet Goubert1, Geert Crombez1, Dirk Hermans2, Guy Vanderstraeten3
1Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
2Department of Psychology, KULeuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
3Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

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AbstractIn this paper, it is investigated whether an implicit evaluative‐negative attitude towards back‐stressing activities exists in pain‐free subjects and in chronic low back pain patients. Using an affective priming task, it was investigated whether pictures of threatening back‐stressing movements (primes) facilitate (respectively, slow down) the categorisation of subsequent evaluative‐negative (evaluative‐positive) words (targets). In study 1 using 20 pain‐free subjects, the affective priming effect indicated evidence for an implicit negative attitude towards pictures of back‐stressing activities. In study 2 using 30 low back pain patients, a reverse priming effect was found. In line with previous research, it is argued that this reverse priming effect is owing to the evaluative extremity of the primes: patients recognize the possibility that extreme primes will interfere with the categorisation of the targets and overcompensate for this possible effect. The implications for the prevention of negative attitudes towards back‐stressing activities in non‐clinical and clinical samples are discussed.

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European Journal of Pain

Tập 7

33-42

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