Abstract
Abstract Recent evidence has underscored the importance of parental models and vicarious learning in the etiology of pain behavior. The present study investigated the relationship between the number of familial pain models to which an individual has been exposed and the individual's reports of current pain experiences in a population of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and non PMS women. Eleven PMS sufferers and ten women free of PMS completed the Parameters of Pain Questionnaire. The results indicated that significant positive relationships existed between the number of pain models in an individual's familial environment and the frequency of her current pain reports for the PMS group but not for the controls. Additionally, the pattern of results indicates that the group differed as to the relative importance of specific pain models (i.e., father, mother, or sibling models). These findings, while tentative, are discussed in terms of vicarious learning and the etiology of PMS.
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