The Legitimacy of Pain as an Object of Study

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ID22010337
AutoresLourdes Biedma Velázquez (0000-0001-8080-6183, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Isabel García-Rodríguez (0000-0002-9761-4097, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), María Isabel García-Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Garcia-Gonzalez (0000-0001-5738-1893, Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Jose Antonio Cerrillo Vidal (0000-0002-7023-0464, Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas), José Antonio Cerrillo-Vidal, Gema Serrano-Gemes (0000-0002-4071-6981, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Antonio Blanco-Hungría, Rafael Serrano Del Rosal (0000-0002-9488-8295, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Ano2022
Volume12
Fascículo10
Páginas634-643
Data de publicação2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAdvances in Applied Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2165-4328 • E-ISSN: 2165-4336
EditoraScientific Research Publishing, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4236/aasoci.2022.1210044
OpenAlexW4312995437
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas17

Pain, as a multidimensional phenomenon, must be tackled from different perspectives. The sociological perspective is one of the less frequent approaches in the bibliography. The main results of a pioneering study about the social legitimacy of pain are set forth in this paper, analyzing citizens’ pain today, the feelings it causes in them, the type of pain they suffer, and how this type of pain has an influence on the perception of their own pain and that of others. A quantitative design was adopted, through a cross-sectional survey of general population living in Spain (n = 1600) conducted online in 2021. The results point out that a high percentage of citizens were in pain when they took the survey, even if they stated that they were in good health. In general, feeling pain means having a worse quality of life. Having pain of a psychological origin involves higher levels of shame or guilt, as well as the feeling of being judged by others, than the other types of pain. The pain caused by cancer is the one with the highest social support, followed by the grief caused by the death of a loved one, while the pain with the lowest support is the one caused by alcoholism or obesity. Feeling that one’s pain is understood and legitimized by others is fundamental to being able to face it, that is why it is important to carry out studies analyzing pain from this perspective

Feeling · Legitimacy · Perception · Population · Psychological pain · Shame · Clinical Psychology · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Psychology · Social Psychology