TY - JOUR KW - Pain KW - Emotional factors KW - Stress KW - distraction AU - Mariano Chóliz Montañes AB - One of the most relevant theories of pain was provided by Melzack and Casey (1968), who adopted and extended the concept of pain as a multidimensional experience. According to this model, sensory, cognitive and affective factors are the main components of pain, they are closely related, and these three processes shape the global experience of pain. In this work, we analyze the principal attributes of emotional dimension of pain, and we describe some of therapeutic applications related with affective component of pain . IS - 1 M3 - Journal Article N2 - One of the most relevant theories of pain was provided by Melzack and Casey (1968), who adopted and extended the concept of pain as a multidimensional experience. According to this model, sensory, cognitive and affective factors are the main components of pain, they are closely related, and these three processes shape the global experience of pain. In this work, we analyze the principal attributes of emotional dimension of pain, and we describe some of therapeutic applications related with affective component of pain . PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés PY - 1994 SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937 SP - 77 EP - 88 T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés TI - Pain as multidimensional experience: the motivational- affective dimension VL - 0 ER -