The moderating role of attachment insecurities in the association between social and physical pain |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;2. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;3. Department of Pediatric Surgery, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China;1. School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia;2. Geology Department, School of Mines, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Campus Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35,400-00, Brazil;3. Mining Engineering Department, School of Mines, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Campus Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35,400-00, Brazil;1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland;2. Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland;3. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland;4. Department of Nursing, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Abstract: | We examined the effects of social exclusion and attachment insecurities (anxiety, avoidance) on physical pain sensitivity, hypothesizing that anxiety would predict greater physical pain sensitivity only following social exclusion. Participants were either included in or excluded from a computer-based ball-tossing game and then completed a coldpressor task. Anxious men showed greater physical pain sensitivity when excluded, but not when included. Moreover, individuals (men and women) high on both anxiety and avoidance showed greater physical pain sensitivity when excluded, but not when included. Conclusions: Anxious individuals’ heightened physical pain sensitivity following exclusion is a manifestation of hyperactivation of their attachment systems, and when threatened, avoidant individuals who are also high in anxiety are less successful in deactivating their attachment systems. |
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| Keywords: | Attachment anxiety Attachment avoidance Social exclusion Physical pain sensitivity |
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