Chronic Pain, Distress and Illness Behavior

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1966 • 21,432 citations

A Self-Rating Depression Scale

1965 • 8,816 citations

The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods

1975 • 6,706 citations

Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire

2006 • 3,725 citations

A personality scale of manifest anxiety.

1953 • 3,145 citations

Graphic representation of pain

1976 • 2,635 citations

Advances in Pain Research and Therapy

1980 • 2,255 citations

The use of analogue scales in rating subjective feelings

1974 • 1,960 citations

Progress in Experimental Personality Research

1986 • 1,538 citations

Measurement of feelings using visual analogue scales.

1969 • 1,362 citations

Development and validation of the Health Locus of Control (HLC) Scale.

1976 • 1,066 citations

Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences.

1976 • 1,018 citations

Self-Rating Depression Scale in an Outpatient Clinic

1965 • 1,008 citations

“Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient

1959 • 956 citations

On the Language of Pain

1971 • 932 citations

Development and validation of the Health Locus of Control (HLC) Scale.

1976 • 856 citations

Nonorganic Physical Signs in Low-Back Pain

1980 • 836 citations

Dimensions of Hypochondriasis

1967 • 830 citations

Internal versus external control of reinforcement: A review.

1966 • 751 citations

Advances in pain research and therapy

2007 • 653 citations

Internal‐External Control in the Motivational Dynamics of Negro Youth*

1969 • 621 citations

A Growing Edge of Measurement of Feelings [Abridged]

1969 • 585 citations

[Etiology of the "pain-dysfunction" syndrome].

1977 • 577 citations

Review of the Internal-External Control Construct as a Personality Variable

1971 • 533 citations

Active Coping Processes, Coping Dispositions, and Recovery from Surgery

1973 • 525 citations

Dimensions of internal versus external control.

1970 • 476 citations

The MMPI: A Practical Guide

1977 • 411 citations

Pain Patients: Traits and treatment

1975 • 410 citations

Cognitive manipulation of pain

1966 • 353 citations

Accident Neurosis

1961 • 353 citations

From Art to Science

1973 • 321 citations

Autonomic feedback: The perception of autonomic activity.

1958 • 314 citations

Pain—Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects

1968 • 313 citations

The Pain Drawing as an Aid to the Psychologic Evaluation of Patients With Low-Back Pain

1976 • 312 citations

The validity and reliability of the visual analogue mood scale

1975 • 307 citations

Consciousness and self-regulation: Advances in research

1977 • 306 citations

Patterns of illness behaviour in patients with intractable pain

1975 • 285 citations

Failed lumbar disc surgery and repeat surgery following industrial injuries.

1979 • 282 citations

The Lumbar Spine and Back Pain.

1976 • 272 citations

Pain and pain control.

1977 • 257 citations

Use of the McGill Pain Questionaire in the assessment of cancer pain: Replicability and consistency

1980 • 242 citations

Individuality in Pain and Suffering

1968 • 229 citations

Pain Sensations and Reactions

1953 • 227 citations

Recovery from surgery, with and without preparatory instruction, for three coping styles.

1970 • 226 citations

Preoperative psychological tests as predictors of success of chemonucleolysis in the treatment of the low-back syndrome

1975 • 222 citations

Depression in the Normal Aged

1967 • 222 citations

Behavioral treatment of chronic pain: The spouse as a discriminative cue for pain behavior

1980 • 220 citations

Some relationships between subjective measures of pain

1972 • 212 citations

Psychiatric disorder in Canberra

1979 • 206 citations

Traits of pain patients: The low-back “loser”

1973 • 197 citations

Manipulation in treatment of low back pain: a multicentre study.

1975 • 180 citations

A Cross-Cultural Survey of Symptoms in Depression

1969 • 174 citations

Low Back Pain in Industry

1969 • 166 citations

Recent developments in the study of locus of control.

1972 • 166 citations

PSYCHOGENIC REGIONAL PAIN ALIAS HYSTERICAL PAIN

1961 • 160 citations

MMPI profiles in patients with low-back pain.

1951 • 146 citations

Pain Sensitivity and the Report of Pain

1974 • 141 citations

Measuring Depressive Symptomatology in a General Population

1975 • 139 citations

Low Back Pain in Industry

1956 • 139 citations

Relationship between locus of control and anxiety.

1967 • 139 citations

Illness Behavior and Medical Diagnoses

1960 • 136 citations

Thermal pain: A sensory decision theory analysis of the effect of age and sex on d', various response criteria, and 50% pain threshold.

1971 • 135 citations

Internal-external control and competent and innovative behavior among Negro college students.

1970 • 133 citations

Some personality correlates of external control

1967 • 122 citations

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HYSTERIA

1963 • 121 citations

The Relation of Pain to the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Cornell Medical Index and Whiteley Index of Hypochondriasis

1971 • 119 citations

Affective and sensory dimensions of back pain

1977 • 119 citations

Cultural Factors and the Response to Pain: A Review¹

1968 • 119 citations

Tolerance for Pain, Extraversion and Neuroticism

1961 • 117 citations

Physiological and Cognitive Processes in the Regulation of Anxiety

1976 • 116 citations

Personality changes associated with reduction of pain

1975 • 114 citations

Role of attentional focus in pain perception: Manipulation of response to noxious stimulation by instructions.

1971 • 113 citations

Severe Localized Pain Associated with the Depressive Syndrome

1963 • 112 citations

The treatment of chronic pain with psychotropic drugs

1972 • 111 citations

Physical, Physiological, and Psychological Factors That Affect Pain Reaction to Electric Shock

1974 • 111 citations

The characteristics of persistent pain in psychological illness

1965 • 108 citations

MANIPULATING THE PATIENT A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PHYSICIAN AND CHIROPRACTOR CARE

1974 • 107 citations

The language of low back pain: Factor structure of the McGill pain questionnaire

1980 • 106 citations

A comparison of pain rating scales

1980 • 101 citations

Psychological aspects of pain in women with advanced cancer of the cervix

1969 • 101 citations

Headache: A biopsychological perspective.

1975 • 98 citations

Comparative effects of acupuncture and transcutaneous stimulation on the perception of painful dental stimuli

1976 • 95 citations

The Endogenous Depressive Pattern

1967 • 95 citations

Pain, its nature, analysis, and treatment

1979 • 95 citations

Vicarious influences on pain-threshold determinations.

1971 • 93 citations

Words of chronic pain

1976 • 92 citations

Illness in relation to life situation and sick-role tendency

1971 • 89 citations

Psychiatric patients with persistent pain

1965 • 87 citations

THE ATHLETE'S NEUROSIS ‐ A DEPRIVATION CRISIS

1969 • 85 citations

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HYPOCHONDRIASIS

1970 • 84 citations

Illness behaviour syndromes associated with intractable pain

1976 • 83 citations

Hopelessness, internal-external locus of control, and depression

1976 • 82 citations

PAIN IN THE BACK: AN ATTEMPT TO ESTIMATE THE SIZE OF THE PROBLEM

1975 • 81 citations

Hypochondriacal States

1976 • 81 citations

Individual differences in response to stress

1973 • 80 citations

Depressive Symptomatology and Role Function in a General Population

1975 • 80 citations

The MMPI as a predictor of response to conservative treatment for low back pain

1979 • 79 citations

A critical look at the treatment for low back pain.

1979 • 79 citations

A validated interview schedule for use in population surveys of chronic disease and disability.

1971 • 78 citations

The use of the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory with low back pain patients

1976 • 78 citations

Pain. Its Nature, Analysis and Treatment

1979 • 78 citations

Social modeling influences on sensory decision theory and psychophysiological indexes of pain.

1978 • 77 citations

Factors of the language of pain in patient and volunteer groups

1977 • 77 citations

Pain: One Mystery Solved

1966 • 76 citations

Social modeling influences on sensory decision theory and psychophysiological indexes of pain.

1978 • 74 citations

Experimental pain produced by the submaximum effort tourniquet technique: further evidence of validity.

1968 • 74 citations

Manifest Anxiety: Unifactorial or Multifactorial Composition?

1965 • 74 citations

THE EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL SET AND AUTONOMIC PERCEPTION ON CARDIAC CONTROL

1971 • 73 citations

The Nature of Bodily Symptoms

1976 • 73 citations

The detection of psychological disturbance in patients with low back pain

1979 • 73 citations

Syndromes and Themes of Psychotic Depression

1963 • 72 citations

The influence of anxiety and pain sensitivity on experimental pain in man

1977 • 71 citations

Patterns of Hypochondriasis: A Principal Components Analysis

1973 • 71 citations

Autonomic feedback: A correlational study1

1958 • 70 citations

THE INCIDENCE AND SEVERITY OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN

1967 • 70 citations

Behavioral treatment of chronic pain: variables affecting treatment efficacy

1980 • 68 citations

Pain and cancer

1970 • 67 citations

Pain and illness behaviour: A comparative study

1976 • 60 citations

Awareness of Heart Activity and Self‐Control of Heart Rate

1972 • 60 citations

“Endogenous” and “Neurotic” Syndromes of Depression: A 5-to 7-Year Follow-up of 104 Cases

1969 • 58 citations

Depression in the Normal Adult Population

1971 • 58 citations

The I-E scale, ideological bias, and political participation1

1970 • 58 citations

Malingering and Feigned Sickness.

1913 • 56 citations

Relation of Anxiety to Locus of Control

1968 • 55 citations

A Cross-Cultural Survey of Depressive Symptomatology in Normal Adults

1972 • 54 citations

The use of the MMPI with chronic low back pain patients with a mixed diagnosis

1976 • 52 citations

Prediction of Illness Behavior from Measures of Life Crisis, Manifest Distress and Maladaptive Coping

1971 • 49 citations

The language of pain: Intensity

1976 • 46 citations

Psychological, demographic and orthopaedic factors associated with prediction of outcome of spinal fusion.

1973 • 46 citations

PERSONALITY DISORDER AND THE RELATIONSHIPS OF EMOTION TO SURGICAL ILLNESS IN 200 SURGICAL PATIENTS

1955 • 41 citations

“In Vivo” Emotive Imagery: A Preliminary Test

1974 • 41 citations

Pain and Its Management in Malignant Disease

1969 • 40 citations

Psychologic characteristics of psychiatric patients having pain as a presenting symptom.

1967 • 40 citations

Malingering, or, The simulation of disease.

2010 • 40 citations

Personality studies in patients with pain secondary to organic disease

1973 • 39 citations

Toward a Definition of Depression

1967 • 38 citations

RATINGS OF ANXIETY‐PRONENESS AND RESPONSES TO ELECTRICAL PAIN STIMULATION: Preliminary experiments in a group of young delinquents

1964 • 36 citations

The effects of vicarious and cognitive rehearsal on pain tolerance

1971 • 35 citations

Illness behaviour and coronary artery by-pass surgery

1979 • 34 citations

Stressing life events and the experience of low back pain

1979 • 34 citations

Components of Depression

1967 • 34 citations

Is illness behaviour related to chronicity in patients with intractable pain?

1976 • 34 citations

A card sort method of pain assessment

1978 • 33 citations

Pain: New Perspectives in Therapy and Research

1977 • 32 citations

Psychologic Factors in Low-Back Pain

1954 • 31 citations

Body Image and Medical Illness

1968 • 31 citations

The structure of depression found in the general population

1980 • 30 citations

Verbal Reports of Pain without Noxious Stimulation

1972 • 28 citations

The relation between pain and personality in patients receiving pentazocine (fortral) after surgery

1976 • 27 citations

The pain profile: a computerized system for assessment of chronic pain

1978 • 27 citations

Repressor-Sensitizer Differences on Repeated Exposures to Pain

1970 • 26 citations

Depressive states : a pharmacotherapeutic study

1963 • 26 citations

Hysteria: The Consultant's Dilemma

1974 • 25 citations

The influence of some environmental factors on personality inventory scores in psychosomatic research

1964 • 24 citations

The Marlowe-Crowne, Repressor-Sensitizer, and Internal-External Scales and Attribution of Unconscious Hostile Intent

1968 • 23 citations

Relation Between Graduated Spinal Block Technique and MMPI for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Chronic Low-Back Pain

1977 • 22 citations

Low back pain: a psychiatric investigation

1972 • 22 citations

Identification of Features Associated with Flying Phobia in Aircrew

1981 • 19 citations

Social disclosure, coactive peer companions, and social modelling determinants of pain communications.

1978 • 19 citations

Validity of a back pain classification scale among patients with low back pain not associated with demonstrable organic disease

1979 • 18 citations

Reaction to illness in long term haemodialysis

1974 • 17 citations

Severity of illness and illness behaviour: A comparative study of coronary care patients

1979 • 16 citations

The Psychodynamics of the Polysurgical Patient: Report of Sixteen Patients

1966 • 14 citations

Working Group on Back Pain

1980 • 14 citations

SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH ORTHOPAEDIC COMPLAINTS.

1964 • 13 citations

THE HEALTH OF THE NATION

1958 • 12 citations

Measurement of illness behaviour in patients on haemodialysis and awaiting cardiac surgery

1979 • 12 citations

Fraud in Medico-Legal Practice.

1932 • 9 citations

Persistent Pain: Modern Methods of Treatment

1979 • 8 citations

The use of questionnaires in personality measurement in psychosomatic research

1964 • 7 citations

THE INTERPRETATION OF PAIN AND THE DYSESTHESIAS

1911 • 7 citations

Characteristics of Symptom-Matched Psychogenic and "Real" Pain Patients on the MMPI

1966 • 5 citations

Notes from the Psychological Laboratory of Cornell University

1920 • 5 citations

Functional Abdominal Pain

2013 • 4 citations

Accidents, Neuroses and Compensation.

1932 • 4 citations

LONELINESS--ITS SYMPTOMS, DYNAMICS AND THERAPY.

1963 • 2 citations

Evaluation of Permanent Impairment of the Spine

1966 • 2 citations

Parameters of Research into the Depressive States

1968 • 2 citations

Case 40261

1954 • 1 citations

Limited Intelligence as Psychodynamic Stress in Patients With Physical Symptoms

1966 • 1 citations