Table 5.

Correlations between the Pain Metacognitions Questionnaire (PMQ), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), and subscales of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ-30) in initial validation sample (N = 864).

Variable	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
(1) Positive pain metacognitions (PMQ-P)	–
(2) Negative pain metacognitions (PMQ-N)	0.16∗∗∗	–
(3) Positive worry beliefs (MCQ-POS)	0.41∗∗∗	0.11∗∗	–
(4) Negative worry beliefs (MCQ-NEG)	0.13∗∗∗	0.47∗∗∗	0.36∗∗∗	–
(5) Cognitive confidence (MCQ-CC)	0.08∗	0.25∗∗∗	0.23∗∗∗	0.39∗∗∗	–
(6) Need for control (MCQ-NC)	0.30∗∗∗	0.37∗∗∗	0.44∗∗∗	0.49∗∗∗	0.27∗∗∗	–
(7) Cognitive self-consciousness (MCQ-CSC)	0.23∗∗∗	0.14∗∗∗	0.40∗∗∗	0.38∗∗∗	0.08∗	0.43∗∗∗	–
(8) Pain catastrophizing (PCS)	0.28∗∗∗	0.48∗∗∗	0.17∗∗∗	0.43∗∗∗	0.24∗∗∗	0.36∗∗∗	0.22∗∗∗

^∗p < 0.05 (two-tailed), ^∗∗p < 0.01 (two-tailed), ^∗∗∗p < 0.001.