The Relation between Self-compassion with Intensity, Catastrophizig, and Self-efficacy of Pain and affect in Women with Musculoskeletal Pain

Aims and Pain is one of the most common health problems. It inherently has a psychological nature and is a complex psychological experience. This research is to investigate the relationship between selfcompassion with pain intensity, catastrophizing, self-efficacy of pain and affect in women with musculoskeletal pain. The Investigation procedure was according to correlational descriptive ones.For this purpose, among women with musculoskeletal pain in Isfahan who were referred to orthopedic clinics and private clinics in winter 2016, 180 persons were selected in accordance to available sampling method.The participants responded to the research tools including Self-compassion, pain multidimensional, pain catastrophizing, pain self-efficacy, positive and negative affects and demographic questionnaires. The data was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. Findings: The results of pearson correlational analysis indicated that there was a significant negative relationship between self-compassion and pain intensity, pain catastrophizing and negative affect in the subjects. Also a positive relationship with pain self-efficacy and positive affect was found as the effect of self compassion. The results of hierarchical regression indicated a 10.5 percent of pain intensity variance after age and painful area control, a 14.4 percent of pain catastrophizing variance after education and marriage control, a 5 percent of pain self-efficacy variance after age control, a 10.3 percent of positive affects and 25.2 percent of negative affects after education control in accordance to self-compassion. The results of this study indicate that self-compassion with the control of demographic variables predicts pain intensity, catastrophizing pain, self-efficacy of pain and positive and negative affects.