Table 4.

Summary of individual factor loadings for PCS-P

Item	PCS-P Two factors & 13-items		PCS-P Two factors & 11-items
Item 10: … keep thinking about how much it hurts.	.88		.93
Item 11: … keep thinking about how much I want the pain to stop.	.80		.82
Item 9: … can’t keep it out of my mind.	.67		.70
Item 1: … worry all the time whether the pain will end.	.56		.59
Item 8: … want pain to go away.	.47		--
Item 6: … afraid that pain will get worse.	.45	−.36	.48	−.32
Item 13: … wonder whether something serious may happen.	.40		.42
Item 7: … keep thinking of other painful events.	.33		--
Item 5: … can’t stand it anymore.		−.88		−.87
Item 2: … feel I can’t go on.		−.86		−.85
Item 4: … awful and feel it takes overwhelms me.		−.86		−.83
Item 3: … terrible and think it’s never going to get better.		−.60		−.57
Item 12: … nothing I can do to reduce the pain.		−.39	.32
Eigenvalue	6.25	1.31	5.94	1.31
% Variance	48.1	10.0	54.0	10.3