CAUSALITY, LINEARITY, AND CIRCULARITY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND PAIN EXPERIENCE

Authors
DEMOJA CA
Citation
Ca. Demoja, CAUSALITY, LINEARITY, AND CIRCULARITY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND PAIN EXPERIENCE, Perceptual and motor skills, 80(1), 1995, pp. 85-86
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
80
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
85 - 86
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1995)80:1<85:CLACOR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to point out a methodological problem found i n the 1994 Naidoo and Pillay study on pain experience. The problem is that an equivocal interpretation of cause-and-effect relationships amo ng variables can lead to testing of mistaken hypotheses in later resea rches.