1. Relationships Between Self-Reported Pain and Optimism Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
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Rivera, Lucía C, Mancilla, Isabel A, Bergstrom, Jaclyn, Thompson, Sharon, and Molina, Anthony J
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Psychology ,Clinical and Health Psychology ,Social and Personality Psychology ,Applied and Developmental Psychology ,Chronic Pain ,Clinical Research ,Neurosciences ,Aging ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Pain Research ,Good Health and Well Being ,Humans ,Aged ,Male ,Female ,Optimism ,Independent Living ,Middle Aged ,Pain ,Longitudinal Studies ,Self Report ,Prospective Studies ,Aged ,80 and over ,Pain Measurement ,optimism ,pain ,pain interference ,aging ,ADAR ,Applied Mathematics ,Public Health and Health Services ,Gerontology ,Applied and developmental psychology ,Clinical and health psychology ,Social and personality psychology - Abstract
Measures of life outlook in older adults have been investigated in connection to pain, as both pain management and outlook are important factors of successful aging. We hypothesized that higher pain is associated with lower optimism among community-dwelling older adults. We utilized data from the UC San Diego Successful Aging Evaluation (SAGE), a prospective longitudinal cohort study initiated in 2010, to evaluate the relationship between pain and optimism in 378 community-dwelling adults aged ≥50 years. We used the revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) to measure optimism and three pain subscales-PROMIS Pain Interference, PROMIS Pain Intensity, and MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)-as pain measures. Regression analyses reveal negative relationships between pain and optimism for all three pain scales, with regression coefficients of -0.277 (p
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- 2024