WorksheetsPain, Culture and Meaning
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 16mins
Match the following
“[I] f it’s like a really excruciating headache then I’ll just
try to take some Tylenol or something … I try to work out
because that usually alleviates all of it”
Passive and active coping strategies
“[M] y mother-in-law is a homeopathic doctor so I
actually have tons of rescue remedies and homeopathic
stuff for like aches and pains so I constantly use that too”
Medication
“I come from a large family … so if anyone gets hurt
some is always there … even if it’s just a cut”
Social Support
Match quote and implications:
“I would say more toward positive, cause then you can
learn from it and you can – you know what exactly what
happened and you won’t do that thing again”
Pain as positive or negative experience
“They can be excruciating. Where I can’t do anything”
Pain as a hindrance to daily functioning
“[B] ecause of all the responsibilities, I carry stress in my
back so I’ll feel it in my shoulders every now and then”
Pain as physical or emotional phenomenon
Match quote and implications
“[I] f it’s like a really excruciating headache then I’ll just
try to take some Tylenol or something … I try to work out
because that usually alleviates all of it”
Passive and active coping strategies
“I’ll more than likely tell other people that I’m in pain so they will kind of leave me alone”
Pain expression
“[T] hey don’t really show their emotions or their physical pain so I don’t feel comfortable showing it to them”
Family and pain expression
Match quote and implications:
“I would say more toward positive, cause then you can
learn from it and you can – you know what exactly what
happened and you won’t do that thing again”
Pain as positive or negative experience
“They can be excruciating. Where I can’t do anything”
Pain as a hindrance to daily functioning
“[B] ecause of all the responsibilities, I carry stress in my
back so I’ll feel it in my shoulders every now and then”
Pain as physical or emotional phenomenon
Now match quote and ethnicity.
“I would say more toward positive, cause then you can
learn from it and you can – you know what exactly what
happened and you won’t do that thing again”
Asian
“They can be excruciating. Where I can’t do anything”
African American
"[B] ecause of all the responsibilities, I carry stress in my
back so I’ll feel it in my shoulders every now and then”
Caucasian
“I’ll more than likely tell other people that I’m in pain so
they will kind of leave me alone”
African American
Match quote and ethnicity
“[I] f it’s like a really excruciating headache then I’ll just
try to take some Tylenol or something … I try to work out
because that usually alleviates all of it”
Asian
“[M] y mother-in-law is a homeopathic doctor so I
actually have tons of rescue remedies and homeopathic
stuff for like aches and pains so I constantly use that too”
Hispanic
“I come from a large family … so if anyone gets hurt
some is always there … even if it’s just a cut
Hispanic
“[T] hey don’t really show their emotions or their physical
pain so I don’t feel comfortable showing it to them”
Caucasian
