The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship of self-compassion to pain, psychological functioning, pain coping, and disability among patients who have persistent musculoskeletal pain and who are obese.
Eighty-eight obese patients with persistent pain completed a paper-and-pencil self-report assessment measure before or after their appointment with their anesthesiologist.
Hierarchical linear regression analyses demonstrated that even after controlling for important demographic variables, self-compassion was a significant predictor of negative affect (尾 = 鈭?.48, P < 0.001), positive affect (尾 = 0.29, P = 0.01), pain catastrophizing (尾 = 鈭?.32, P = 0.003), and pain disability (尾 = 鈭?.24, P < 0.05).
The results of this study indicate that self-compassion may be important in explaining the variability in pain adjustment among patients who have persistent musculoskeletal pain and are obese.