The Development and Psychometric Validation of an Arabic-Language Version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale

Table 1

EFA using principle axis factoring and promax rotation.

Items	Factors
	1	2
I worry all the time about whether the pain will end	0.09	0.73
I feel I can’t go on	0.11	0.77
It’s terrible and I think it’s never going to get any better	0.22	0.73
It’s awful and I feel that it overwhelms me	0.16	0.77
I feel I can’t stand it anymore	−0.04	0.98
I become afraid that the pain will get worse	0.73	0.15
I keep thinking of other painful events	0.92	−0.10
I anxiously want the pain to go away	0.71	0.15
I can’t seem to keep it out of my mind	0.78	0.15
I keep thinking about how much it hurts	0.68	0.28
I keep thinking about how badly I want the pain to stop	0.72	0.23
There’s nothing I can do to reduce the intensity of the pain	0.35	0.48
I wonder whether something serious may happen	0.66	0.22