THE PAIN BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS INVENTORY - A BRITISH REPLICATION

The factorial structure, reliability, and validity of the Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory (PBPI) was investigated in a sample of 84 p ain patients drawn from a pain clinic in the United Kingdom. The recov ered factorial structure replicated that of a previous study. The 4 de rived subscales, Mysteriousness, Self-Blame, Pain Constancy and Pain P ermanence, had excellent reliability (internal consistency); Chronbach 's alpha was greater than 0.80. However, the construct validity of the PBPI, assessed by examining the association between the subscales and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ), was not supported. The res ults are discussed with particular reference to the interpretative iss ues concerning 2 of the subscales and their relation to the concept of the 'time line' component of illness representation.