Time perspective as a moderator of a relationship between preoperative pain and acute postoperative pain.

The aim of this article was to test time perspective as a moderator of the relationship between pain before surgery and acute postoperative pain. Time perspective (ZTPI) and pain before surgery (SF-MPQ) were assessed pre-operatively in 112 patients. The results suggest that past-negative time perspective and fatalistic perspective are significant moderators of the link between preoperative pain and acute postoperative pain. In a case of weak past-negative perspective and weak present-fatalistic perspective, the relationship between preoperative pain and acute postoperative pain is not significant.