| Reference : Parental emotion and pain control behaviour when faced with child’s pain: the emotion... |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Theoretical & cognitive psychology | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/36393 | |||
| Parental emotion and pain control behaviour when faced with child’s pain: the emotion regulatory role of parental pain-related attention-set shifting and heart rate variability | |
| English | |
Vervoort, Tine  [> >] | |
| Karos, Kai [> >] | |
| Johnson, Dan [> >] | |
| Sutterlin, Stefan [> >] | |
| Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) > ; Ghent University > Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology] | |
| 2018 | |
| Pain | |
| Elsevier Science | |
| Yes (verified by ORBilu) | |
| International | |
| 0304-3959 | |
| 1872-6623 | |
| Amsterdam | |
| The Netherlands | |
| [en] children ; parents ; attention set-shifting ; heart rate variability ; emotion regulation ; parental protective behaviour ; facial pain expression | |
| [en] , The present study investigated the moderating role of parental pain-related attention-set
shifting and heart rate variability (HRV) for parental distress and pain control behaviour when faced with their child’s pain. Participants were 54 school children and one of their parents. Parental HRV was assessed at study commencement followed by a cued switching task indexing parental ability to flexibly shift attention between pain-related and neutral attentional sets. In a subsequent phase, parents observed their child perform a CPT task, allowing assessment of parental pain control behavior (indexed by latency to stop their child’s CPT performance) and parental distress – assessed via self-report following observation of child CPT performance. Findings indicated that parental facilitated attentional shifting (i.e., engage) towards a pain-related attentional set contributed to higher levels of pain control behaviour when faced with increasing levels of chid facial display of pain. Pain control behaviour amongst parents who demonstrated impeded attentional shifting to a pain-related attentional set was equally pronounced regardless of low or high levels of child pain expression. Parental ability to shift attention away (i.e., disengage) from a pain related set to a neutral set did not impact findings. Results further indicated that whereas high levels of parental HRV buffers the impact of child facial pain display upon parental emotional distress and pain control behaviour, low levels of HRV constitute a risk factor for higher levels of parental distress and pain control behaviour when faced with increased child facial pain display. Theoretical/clinical implications and further research directions are discussed. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/36393 | |
| 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001402 |
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