Among pain researchers there is a growing interest in the relationship between psychological resilience and pain experience. Whereas much of this work has focused on individual differences in pain perception or sensitivity, an equally important dimension of resilience is the capacity to persist with goal-directed activity despite experiencing pain. Consistent with this latter focus, the current study examined how pain resilience and pain catastrophizing combine to moderate the effects of ischemic pain on short-term memory task performance. Using a within-subjects design, 121 healthy participants completed four trials of a Corsi block-tapping task with pain exposure during the second and fourth trials. Results indicated that a combination of high pain resilience and low pain catastrophizing was associated with better task performance during the second pain exposure. These findings confirm existing evidence that resilience can moderate performance during pain, and offer new evidence that resilience and catastrophizing interact to shape this effect.

在疼痛研究人员中，人们对心理弹性与疼痛经历之间的关系越来越感兴趣。尽管许多工作集中在疼痛感知或敏感性的个体差异上，但是韧性的同等重要的方面是尽管经历了疼痛，但仍能坚持目标定向活动的能力。与后面的重点一致，当前的研究检查了疼痛弹性和疼痛灾难性结合如何减轻缺血性疼痛对短期记忆任务的影响。使用受试者内部设计，在第二和第四次试验中，有121位健康参与者完成了四次有关Corsi敲击任务且疼痛暴露的试验。结果表明，在第二次疼痛暴露期间，高疼痛弹性和低疼痛灾难性的组合与更好的任务表现相关。这些发现证实了现有的证据表明韧性可以缓解疼痛，并提供新的证据表明韧性和灾难性相互作用会影响这种效果。