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The absence of Croatian- and Arabic-language measures to assess illness representations has contributed to lack of research among Croatian and Lebanese populations. Utilising the robust confirmatory factor analysis ( CFA) approach, this study aimed to validate Croatian and Arabic versions of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire for Healthy People ( IPQ- RH) in the breast and cervical cancer contexts, and compared these illness perceptions among Croatian and Lebanese women living in Australia. Forward and back-translated versions of the IPQ- RH were administered in Croatian to Croatian-born ( n = 238), and Arabic to Lebanese-born ( n = 240) women. The IPQ- RH illness perceptions were assessed for each cancer type, and the Negative Affect ( NA) subscale of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule ( PANAS) assessed discriminant validity. The CFA method demonstrated acceptable models across the Croatian and Lebanese IPQ- RH measures. The internal reliabilities for the IPQ- RH subscales were adequate and the subscales had low correlations with the NA subscale of the PANAS, indicating that the IPQ- RH measures are largely distinguishable from negative affective dispositions. These findings demonstrate that the Croatian and Lebanese IPQ- RH breast and cervical cancer measures have a factor structure similar to the originally developed IPQ- RH scale and provide further support for the theoretically developed illness representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]