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Anxious adult patients experience more chronic pain, even after controlling for personality traits of neuroticism, negative affectivity, and ways of coping. Avoidant adults adhere less well to medical regimens. They more-frequently experienced poor communications with their physicians and took worse care of themselves, even in the face of life-threatening diseases.

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