UMD Theses and Dissertations

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    Attachment and Pain Catastrophizing From a Communal Coping Perspective in Women With Chronic Pain
    (2021) Reeves, Elizabeth; Hoffman, Mary Ann; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Chronic pain is a devastating public health problem particularly in women, who are at increased risk for chronic conditions and report more depression and disability secondary to pain relative to men. The impact of relationships, which are critical to the experience and management of pain as well as central to the female gender role, may help to explain gender disparities. The present study uses the Communal Coping Model of Pain Catastrophizing (CCM) and the Attachment-Diathesis Model of Chronic Pain (ADMoCP) to investigate how relationship patterns influence coping responses in women with chronic pain. It seeks to clarify the mechanisms by which unmet attachment needs contribute to pain catastrophizing and influence perceptions of others’ responses to pain and pain-related behaviors. Furthermore, it seeks to examine how insecure attachment might contribute to lower levels of adaptive, intrapersonal responses to pain such as self-compassion, and whether addressing these deficits might represent a viable target for intervention. A total of 355 women with generalized chronic pain conditions (Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and/or Myofascial Pain Syndrome) completed an online survey. Exploratory analyses examine relationships between attachment, pain appraisals, pain catastrophizing, self-compassion, depression, and disability. Additional analyses test the CCM and the ADMoCP by investigating: (1) two possible mechanisms by which attachment needs might influence pain catastrophizing, depression, and disability; and (2) the role of attachment and pain catastrophizing in shaping perceptions of others’ responses to pain and pain-related behaviors. Findings have implications for conceptualization and treatment from an attachment perspective.
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    Coping: Landscapes of the Human Mind
    (2010) Hoffman, Dory E.; Casey, Maud; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The following novel excerpt and story investigate the ways in which people cope. These works look closely at the way experience affects perception, memory and thought. Characters in these works willingly misinterpret reality and view the world through a lens distorted by their experience. These variations carve pathways in the mind's landscape, restructuring the way the world is understood.
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    Private Lives and Glancing Blows: A Philosophy of Disconnection
    (2009) Davis, Katherine Ann; Norman, Howard; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The following stories, letters, and novel excerpt explore the impossibility of reconnecting to the past. They examine moments in their characters' lives when the desire for such a connection is quite strong--it means wanting to have potential, wanting to belong somewhere, and wanting not to be lonely. Questions of truth in memory and perception also emerge. I explore this desire by situating characters at different points in their lives, so they are looking back across varying distances: for the narrator in "Reasons I Got Up This Morning, going back means a return to the day before, and in "Gustav Has Glancing Blow" it means a return to childhood. The boy in "My Collector" wants entire histories preserved so that they are alive forever and he can be part of them.