APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Their Effectiveness at Mitigating Physiological Responses to Pain in Children with Cancer
- Christina Korth
Department of Psychology, Chapman University - Natasha Hikita
Department of Psychology, Chapman University - Paige Greif
Department of Psychology, Chapman University - Brooke Jenkins
Department of Psychology, Chapman University - Douglas Granger
School of Nursing, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University - Douglas Granger
Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, University of California Irvine - Michelle Fortier
UCI Center on Stress and Health, University of California-Irvine
Abstract
The cold pressor task (CPT) was used to determine whether different emotion regulation strategies (distraction, reappraisal, and reassurance) impacted pain responses in children with cancer. Children in the reassurance condition exhibited salivary alpha-amylase levels that continued to rise after the CPT as compared to children in other conditions.
Emotion
