Children Mimic Parents in Overcoming Pain

Most of the children will
imitate the behavior of those
around him. Now recent
studies indicate that the
behavior of the family can
affect how children cope with pain. The study was
conducted by researchers
from University Hospital Split,
Croatia and the results have
been published online in the
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. It is
assessed by the researchers in
this study is pain
catastrophizing or excessive
negative mental state in
response to actual pain or the anticipation of pain. "We
found that pain
catastrophizing scores on the
parents could be predicted
from the results obtained her
child, regardless of the level of pain actually experienced,"
said Suzyen Kraljevic from
Split University Hospital, as
quoted from HealthDay,
Friday (04/15/2011). The
researchers concluded this because during childhood,
parents are models to be
emulated by their children. He
will observe how the parents
manage the sadness and the
pain they experienced and practiced in a similar context.
"Families can develop specific
cognitive style when dealing
with the pain," he said.
Children generally will imitate
what they see in a concrete, whereas the maximum
undeveloped reasoning. This
makes it absorb whatever he
saw and thought that's what
I do if I experience pain. For
that parents must be a good model and give examples of
behaviors in children including
how the proper way to
address the pain that appears.