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BACKGROUND Clinical interventions aim to improve the daily-life experiences of patients. However, past research has highlighted important discrepancies between commonly used assessments (e.g., retrospective questionnaires) and patients' daily-life experiences of pain. These gaps may contribute to flawed clinical decision-making and ineffective care. Recent work suggests that real-time, task-based clinical assessments may help reduce these discrepancies by adding predictive value in explaining daily-life pain experiences. This study aimed to investigate these relationships by evaluating whether task-based measures of sensitivity to physical activity (SPA) predict daily-life pain and mood, beyond traditional pain-related questionnaires. METHODS Adults with back pain (