Table 3.

Pain Catastrophizing Scale factor structure by Principal Components Analysis with loadings (n = 90)

Pain Catastrophizing Scale		Components
		Rumination	Magnification	Helplessness
11	I keep thinking about how badly I want the pain to stop	0.79
10	I keep thinking about how much it hurts	0.78
8	I anxiously want the pain to go away	0.72
9	I can’t seem to keep it out of mind	0.67	0.43
6	I become afraid that the pain may get worse	0.57	0.32
13	I wonder whether something serious may happen		0.89
1	I worry all the time whether the pain will end	0.49	0.61
7	I think of other painful experiences	0.37	0.52
12	There is nothing I can do to reduce the intensity of the pain			0.87
4	It’s awful and I feel that it overwhelms me	0.60		0.64
2	I feel I can’t go on	0.33		0.63
5	I feel I can’t stand it any more	0.57		0.61
3	It’s terrible and I think it’s never going to get any better	0.52		0.54

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis; varimax rotation with Kaiser normalization. Rotation converged in six iterations; values below 0.3 are suppressed. The model explained 64.7% of the total variance; component 1 explained 47.9%, component 2 = 8.1%, and component 3 = 8.8%.