Pain Catastrophizing and Its Relationship with Health Outcomes: Does Pain Intensity Matter?

Table 2

Slopes, intercepts, explained variance, and bivariate associations between pain catastrophizing and each outcome across pain categories.

	Mild pain (n = 80)	Moderate pain (n = 103)	Severe pain (n = 71)
Pain interference
Intercept	0.90	3.30	5.95
Slope	0.23	0.16	0.07
	.49	.28	.07
Physical functioning
Intercept	85.01	71.99	40.33
Slope	−2.18	−1.39	0.35
	.28	.15	.01
			−.18
Role Physical
Intercept	81.42	58.16	43.97
Slope	2.47	1.03	−0.91
	.40	.09	.09
r
General Health
Intercept	75.25	69.05	41.96
Slope	−2.05	−1.73	−0.57
	.45	.35	.05
r			−.23
Mental Composite Score
Intercept	53.02	54.19	51.16
Slope	−0.80	−0.92	−0.80
	.26	.31	.24
r

Intercepts, slopes, and explained variances refer to the regression lines. Bivariate associations were calculated using Pearson correlations. Bivariate associations and slopes differ because study variables were not standardized.
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