APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Social Concern Is Associated with Higher Pain Response in Pediatric Patients with Cancer
- Paige Greif
Department of Psychology, Chapman University - Natasha Hikita
Department of Psychology, Chapman University - Christina Korth
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
Pediatric cancer patients’ physiological pain responses to the Cold Pressor Task (CPT) were measured via salivary alpha amylase (sAA). Those who scored higher on the social concern subscale of the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index had higher sAA levels in response to pain than those who scored lower on social concern.
Emotion
