The findings suggest that pain-related anxiety constructs, but not trait anxiety, are most associated with pain perception in men and women. Trait anxiety was associated with pain perception for only 3 indices of pain perception, and only for cold pain intensity ratings for men. Moreover, trait anxiety did not predict unique variance in pain perception within any regression. This result contrasts with previous findings [30] and [44] and may be a function of how variance in other pain-related anxiety constructs was controlled for.