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  • Linking goal progress to subjective well-being at work: the moderating role of goal-related self-efficacy and attainability.
    Although goal progress is often hypothesized to be positively linked to well-being, existing research points to an inconsistent rela...
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  • Perceptions of Chronic Pain’s Interference with Sexual Functioning: The Role of Gender, Treatment Status, and Psychosocial Factors
      The relation between self-reported pain and sexual functioning was investigated in a national sample of adults between th...
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  • Concurrent Validity of the Multidimensional Health Profile—Health Functioning Scales (MHP-H) in the Pre-operative Assessment of Applicants for Gastric Bypass Surgery
      The concurrent validity of a brief screening test, the Multidimensional Health Profile-Health Functioning (MHP-H) was exa...
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  • Perceived goal ownership, regulatory goal cognition, and health behavior change.
    As compared to participants with self-set and joint-set goals, participants with partner-set goals reported less adaptive regulatory...
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  • Psychosocial aspects of pain-related life task interference: an exploratory analysis in a general population sample.
    Regression analyses revealed that pain severity, along with factors assessed by the PCP: EA (including catastrophizing, fear of pain...
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  • Psychological "resilience" and its correlates in chronic pain: findings from a national community sample.
    The display of effective functioning despite exposure to stressful circumstances and/or internal distress is often termed 'resilienc...
    Pain 123:90 (2006)
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  • Evaluating chronic pain impact among patients in primary care: further validation of a brief assessment instrument.
    Retest reliability, internal consistency, factor structure, and social desirability bias were all found to be acceptable. Likewise,...
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  • The development and preliminary validation of a brief measure of chronic pain impact for use in the general population.
    From a biopsychosocial perspective, assessing chronic pain's psychological impact should involve at minimum the measurement of pain...
    Pain 113:82 (2005)
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  • The development and preliminary validation of the Profile of Chronic Pain: Extended Assessment Battery.
    The aim of the present research was the development and validation of a set of instruments, collectively called the Profile of Chron...
    Pain 118:380 (2005)
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  • Health goal cognition and adjustment in women with fibromyalgia.
    The purpose of this study was to identify individual differences in symptom-specific goal for persons diagnosed with fibromyalgia sy...
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  • Comparing the experiential and psychosocial dimensions of chronic pain in african americans and Caucasians: findings from a national community sample.
    Although African American and Caucasian adults with chronic pain did not differ significantly in pain severity, interference, emotio...
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  • Self-Regulation and Chronic Pain:The Role of Emotion
    We will focus on the role of emotion as an energizing force in self-regulation and discuss the implications for managing pain. We wi...
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  • Social support and social norms: do both contribute to predicting leisure-time exercise?
    Esteem social support was the strongest predictor of total and strenuous leisure-time exercise (P < .001), and descriptive norm was...
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  • Evidence for the importance of openness to experience on performance of a fluid intelligence task by physically active and inactive participants.
    The cross-sectional relationship between exercise training history and performance on a fluid intelligence test was examined. In add...
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  • Clarifying the contribution of subjective norm to predicting leisure-time exercise.
    Friend descriptive social norm was a significant predictor of both intention (p<.05) and leisure-time exercise (p<.001). CONCLUSION:...
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  • Expanding the conceptual range of health self-regulation research: A commentary
    I discuss how the present elaborated volitional models can help potentially overcome the “problem of psycho-semanticism”, i.e.,...
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  • Search for Motivational Resonance
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  • Comparative self-evaluation and depressive affect among chronic pain patients: An examination of selective evaluation theory
    Selective evaluation theory suggests that an individual suffering from a medical condition might employ self-enhancing comparative ev...
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  • Effects of attentional focusing on pain perception
    Two experiments were conducted to examine the hypothesized differential effectiveness of two attentional focusing strategies in pain...
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  • Affective meaning and depression: A semantic differential analysis
    While depressive symptomatology is typically discussed in terms of a cognitive-behavioral-affective triad, research and clinical work...
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