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Keywords

Intractable pain--Psychological aspects; Pain--Psychological aspects;

Abstract

The Inventory of Negative Thoughts in Response to Pain (INTRP) and the Pain Cognition List (PCL) are two instruments recently developed to assess pain patients ' cognitions. Although both measures appear to be psychometrically sound, the reliability and validity of these measures have received inadequate attention. The norms and psychometric properties of both measures were investigated in a nonclinical college population. For each measure, items loading on the extracted factors differed somewhat for the normative samples. Thus, the factor structures of both inventories were investigated, using principal components factor analysis. Satisfactory internal consistency estimates were obtained for each factor scale of a revised INTRP and a revised PCL. Adequate measures of factor scale distinctiveness were obtained for all of the extracted factors. Evidence of convergent and discriminant validity supports the utility of each revised factor scale. Although the results of the present study support the use of the revised INTRP and the revised PCL in similar college populations, the factor structure of the original INTRP and the original PCL should be investigated in other samples.

Year of Submission

1992

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of Psychology

First Advisor

Augustine S. Osman

Second Advisor

Frank X. Barrios

Third Advisor

Andrew R. Gilpin

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Date Original

1992

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1 PDF file (89 leaves)

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en

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