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KMID : 0390119940340010277
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Journal of Pusan Medical College
1994 Volume.34 No. 1 p.277 ~ p.302
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The Relationship of the Emotional State and Pain Tolerance in Normal Adults
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to test the relationship of the emotional state and pain tolerance in normal adults.
The study was designed using non-equivalant control group pre-post test design. The subjects of the study were 36 male and 42 female students in P university in Pusan and they were randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. The data
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collected from Feb 8 to July 6, 1993.
The pain stimulation was given by Smith's Submaximum Effor Tourniquet Technique method and the pain tolerance was checked by time until reporting no toleration of the pain remained. In the experimental group pain tolerance was checked before and
after
treatment. The treatment given were that of contents for 20 minutes in turn. Positive emotion was provoked by showing the video program of peaceful and pretty contents and negative emotion was provoked by showing the video program composed of
disgusting
and horrifying contents. In the control group the treatment was not applied and the pain tolerance was checked twice at intervals of one hour.
@ES The testing results of the hypotheses were summarized as follows:
@EN 1. Hypothesis 1 was accepted by t-test, ANOVA and Scheffe; the pain tolerance after showing the video program of positive emotional contents in the experimental group was higher than that in the control group(t-4.45, P=0.000).
2. Hypothesis 2 was accepted by t-test, ANOVA and Scheffe in the female sample only; first by t-test in the total sample the pain toterance after showing the video program of negative emotional contents in the experimental group was lower than
that in
the control group(t=-2.45, P=k0.0017). Next, Hypothesis 2 was retested by t-test, ANOVA and Scheffe with sex and emotional changing levels. The testing results were as follows; the pain tolerance after showing the video program of negative
emotional
contents in the female experimental group with higher emotional change was lower than that in the control group(female experimental group with higher emotional change: t=-2.48, P=0.17). And there was no significant statistical difference in pain
tolerance between the male experimental and control group. Therefore conclusionally Hypothesis 2 was accepted in the female sample only.
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