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This was a cross-sectional study on 411 operative patients from a single sports surgeon\u2019s clinical practice with completed OSPRO-YF questionnaires. Latent class analysis was employed to construct distress phenotypes based on binary measures for 11 single-construct psychological questionnaires, spanning two negative and one positive domains of pain-associated psychological distress. Functional outcome measures, including numerical pain scores, the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS), the Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Score (ASES), and the International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Form (IKDC), were compared. Four psychological distress clusters were derived: low distress (LD-1; n = 111), low self-efficacy (LS-2; n = 101), negative pain coping, low self-efficacy (NP-3; n = 99), and high distress (HD-4; n = 100), with increasing yellow flags proceeding from LD-1 to HD-4. The mean numerical pain scores were highest in HD-4 and lowest in LD-1 and LS-2 (4.6 vs. 2.7 and 2.0, respectively; p &lt; 0.001). The PROMIS depression scores were highest in HD-4 compared to NP-3, LS-2, and LD-1 (57.0 vs. 48.9 vs. 45.6 vs. 46.0; p &lt; 0.001). 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