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Reliability And Construct Validity Of The Pain Distress Inventory

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Assessment, Pain distress, PDI, Psychometrics, Self-report

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volume

28

Issue

2

First Page

169

Last Page

180

Abstract

We conducted three studies to evaluate further the reliability and construct validity of a new self-report instrument, the Pain Distress Inventory (PDI; Osman et al., 2003, The Pain Distress Inventory: Development and initial psychometric properties, J. Clin. Psychol. 59: 767-785). In Study I, exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic results confirmed the replicability of the four-factor oblique solution of the PDI in a mixed sample of students and nonstudents. We also found strong evidence for criterion-related validity of scores on this instrument. In Study II, multisample analyses results found further evidence for equivalence of structure of the PDI across African American and Caucasian young adults. Ethnic and gender group differences were obtained on two of the PDI scale scores. Internal consistency reliability estimates on the PDI total and scale scores were good in both Studies I and II. In Study III, additional analyses of internal consistency and known-groups validity established strong support for construct validity of the PDI. © 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

4-1-2005

DOI of published version

10.1007/s10865-005-3666-1

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