Abstract
The Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire (PVAQ; McCracken, 1997) is a detailed self-reported inventory of selective attention to pain, and it is widely used for both patients with chronic pain and the non-clinical population. In this study, a Japanese version of the PVAQ was developed, and its reliability and validity were examined with 722 college students. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the current Japanese version of the PVAQ had a 2-factor structure composed of ‘attention to pain’ and ‘attention to changes in pain’ dimensions, as previously reported for questionnaires designed in Western countries (Roelofs et al., 2002). The Japanese version of the PVAQ exhibited adequate internal consistency and concurrent validity. These results indicate that the Japanese version of the PVAQ is satisfactorily reliable and valid to apply to Japanese population.
