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The Effect of Anxiety Sensitivity and Gender on the Experience of Pain

Pages 813-829 | Published online: 10 Sep 2010

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Celia C. Y. Wong, Daniel J. Paulus, Chad Lemaire, Amy Leonard, Carla Sharp, Clayton Neighbors, Charles P. Brandt, Qian Lu & Michael J. Zvolensky. (2018) Examining HIV-Related stigma in relation to pain interference and psychological inflexibility among persons living with HIV/AIDS: The role of anxiety sensitivity. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services 17:1, pages 1-15.
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Arpine Hovasapian & Linda J. Levine. (2016) Reappraisal mitigates overestimation of remembered pain in anxious individuals. Cognition and Emotion 30:6, pages 1222-1231.
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Jennifer Dahne, Elana M. Hoffman & Laura MacPherson. (2015) The Association Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Motivation to Quit Smoking Among Women and Men in Residential Substance Use Treatment. Substance Use & Misuse 50:1, pages 72-78.
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David J. Moore, Christopher Eccleston & Edmund Keogh. (2013) Does sex moderate the relationship between anxiety and pain?. Psychology & Health 28:7, pages 746-764.
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LindsayS. Uman, SherryH. Stewart, MargoC. Watt & Amber Johnston. (2006) Differences in High and Low Anxiety Sensitive Women's Responses to a Laboratory‐Based Cold Pressor Task. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 35:4, pages 189-197.
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Edmund Keogh, Cate Barlow, Charlotte Mounce & FrankW. Bond. (2006) Assessing the Relationship Between Cold Pressor Pain Responses and Dimensions of the Anxiety Sensitivity Profile in Healthy Men and Women. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 35:4, pages 198-206.
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Edmund Keogh, Susan Ayers & Harriet Francis. (2002) Does Anxiety Sensitivity Predict Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms Following Childbirth? A Preliminary Report. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 31:4, pages 145-155.
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Gerhard Andersson & Pernilla Vretblad. (2000) Anxiety Sensitivity in Patients with Chronic Tinnitus. Scandinavian Journal of Behaviour Therapy 29:2, pages 57-64.
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Sarah Grant, Sam Norton, Ricarda F. Weiland, Anke M. Scheeren, Sander Begeer & Rosa A. Hoekstra. (2022) Autism and chronic ill health: an observational study of symptoms and diagnoses of central sensitivity syndromes in autistic adults. Molecular Autism 13:1.
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Edmund Keogh. (2022) Sex and gender differences in pain: past, present, and future. Pain 163:S1, pages S108-S116.
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Xi Pan, Cori A. Palermo, Chloe S. Kaplan, Nathaniel G. Harnett, Sherry R. Winternitz, Milissa L. Kaufman & Lauren A.M. Lebois. (2022) Anxiety sensitivity predicts depression severity in individuals with dissociative identity disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research 155, pages 263-268.
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J.C. Brown, R. Boat, N.C. Williams, M.A. Johnson & G.R. Sharpe. (2022) The effect of trait self-control on dyspnoea and tolerance to a CO2 rebreathing challenge in healthy males and females. Physiology & Behavior 255, pages 113944.
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Noga Tsur. (2020) Chronic Pain Personification Following Child Abuse: The Imprinted Experience of Child Abuse in Later Chronic Pain. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 37:5-6, pages NP2516-NP2537.
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Noga Tsur. (2020) “My own flesh and blood”: The implications of child maltreatment for the orientation towards the body among dyads of mothers and daughters. Child Abuse & Neglect 104, pages 104469.
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Marieke WM Kuiper, Elisabeth WM Verhoeven & Hilde M Geurts. (2018) The Dutch Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire: Psychometric properties of an autism-specific sensory sensitivity measure. Autism 23:4, pages 922-932.
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Juliane Traxler, Martien G.S. Schrooten, Pauline Dibbets & Linda M.G. Vancleef. (2019) Interpretation bias in the face of pain: a discriminatory fear conditioning approach. Scandinavian Journal of Pain 19:2, pages 383-395.
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Lisa R. LaRowe, Michael J. Zvolensky & Joseph W. Ditre. (2018) The Role of Anxiety-Relevant Transdiagnostic Factors in Comorbid Chronic Pain and Tobacco Cigarette Smoking. Cognitive Therapy and Research 43:1, pages 102-113.
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E. Keogh, F. Cheng & S. Wang. (2018) Exploring attentional biases towards facial expressions of pain in men and women. European Journal of Pain 22:9, pages 1617-1627.
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Arielle Horenstein, Carrie M. Potter & Richard G. Heimberg. (2018) How does anxiety sensitivity increase risk of chronic medical conditions?. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 25:3, pages e12248.
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July Lies, Shi Ting Lau, Lester E Jones, Mark P Jensen & Gabriel Tan. (2017) Predictors and Moderators of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation of Anxiety Sensitivity and Resilience in Individuals with Chronic Pain. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 46:3, pages 102-110.
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Edmund Keogh. 2013. Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care. Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care 347 366 .
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T. Thompson, E. Keogh, M. J.‐L. Chen & C. C. French. (2011) Emotion‐focused coping and distraction: Sex differences in the influence of anxiety sensitivity during noxious heat stimulation. European Journal of Pain 16:3, pages 410-420.
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O.A. Alabas, O.A. Tashani & M.I. Johnson. (2012) Gender role expectations of pain mediate sex differences in cold pain responses in healthy Libyans. European Journal of Pain 16:2, pages 300-311.
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Hsing-Yi Yu, Fu-In Tang, Ming-Chen Yeh, Benjamin Ing-Tiau Kuo & Shu Yu. (2011) Use, Perceived Effectiveness, and Gender Differences of Pain Relief Strategies Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly in Taiwan. Pain Management Nursing 12:1, pages 41-49.
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Ana Isabel Masedo Gutiérrez, María Rosa Esteve Zarazaga & Stefaan Van Damme. (2011) The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity, Fear of Pain and Experiential Avoidance in Experimental Pain. Psychology 02:08, pages 817-830.
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Tahereh Najafi Ghezeljeh, Mahmoud Momtahen, Mesfin Kassaye Tessma, Mansoureh Yadavar Nikravesh, Inger Ekman & Azita Emami. (2010) Gender specific variations in the description, intensity and location of Angina Pectoris: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 47:8, pages 965-974.
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Kendra L. S. Ocañez, R. Kathryn McHugh & Michael W. Otto. (2010) A meta-analytic review of the association between anxiety sensitivity and pain. Depression and Anxiety 27:8, pages 760-767.
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Andrea L. Martin, Eileen Halket, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, David B. Flora & Joel Katz. (2010) Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and the Diathesis-Stress Model of Chronic Pain and Disability in Patients Undergoing Major Surgery. The Clinical Journal of Pain 26:6, pages 518-527.
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Dennis E. Reidy, Katie Dimmick, Kate MacDonald & Amos Zeichner. (2009) The relationship between pain tolerance and trait aggression: effects of sex and gender role. Aggressive Behavior 35:5, pages 422-429.
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Trevor Thompson, Edmund Keogh, Christopher C. French & Robert Davis. (2008) Anxiety sensitivity and pain: Generalisability across noxious stimuli. Pain 134:1, pages 187-196.
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Linda M.G. Vancleef, Madelon L. Peters, Susan M.P. Gilissen & Peter J. De Jong. (2007) Understanding the Role of Injury/Illness Sensitivity and Anxiety Sensitivity in (Automatic) Pain Processing: An Examination Using the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task. The Journal of Pain 8:7, pages 563-572.
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Caroline Hunt, Edmund Keogh & Christopher C. French. (2007) Anxiety sensitivity, conscious awareness and selective attentional biases in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy 45:3, pages 497-509.
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Jennie C.I. Tsao, Qian Lu, Cynthia D. Myers, Su C. Kim, Norman Turk & Lonnie K. Zeltzer. (2006) Parent and Child Anxiety Sensitivity: Relationship to Children’s Experimental Pain Responsivity. The Journal of Pain 7:5, pages 319-326.
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