Italian Validation of the Touch Avoidance Measure and the Touch Avoidance Questionnaire
| Autor: | Marcello Passarelli, Luca Rizzi, Raffaella Perrella, Laura Casetta, Giorgio Arcara |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Casetta, Laura, Rizzi, Luca, Passarelli, Marcello, Arcara, Giorgio, Perrella, Raffaella |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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lcsh:BF1-990
050105 experimental psychology Structural equation modeling Italian validation 03 medical and health sciences Nonverbal communication 0302 clinical medicine touch avoidance social touch ordinal CFA non-verbal communication Italian validation Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social touch General Psychology Reliability (statistics) touch avoidance Measure (data warehouse) 05 social sciences Brief Research Report Interpersonal touch lcsh:Psychology social touch Convergent validity Scale (social sciences) ordinal CFA non-verbal communication Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 11 (2020) Frontiers in Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01673 |
| Popis: | Social touch is essential in relationships and well-being, but the unique personal experience of touch is not assessed and taken into account in health and social care services. The pleasantness of gentle stroking is influenced by gender, toucher genre, toucher familiarity, culture, and age. Moreover, pleasantness is influenced by touch avoidance, the attitude toward interpersonal touch. The aim of this article is to present the translation, adaptation, and validation in Italian of two scales to measure touch avoidance. For translation and validation, we selected the most used scale, the Touch Avoidance Measure (TAM) and a more recent scale, the Touch Avoidance Questionnaire (TAQ). Confirmatory factor analyses reported good model fit for the TAM [comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.947, Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) = 0.940, root-mean-square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.065] and excellent model fit for the TAQ (CFI = 0.954, TLI = 0.950, RMSEA = 0.058). Internal consistency was high for all subscales, except the TAQ "Stranger" subscale. One-month test-retest reliability ranged from 0.67 to 0.90 for each subscale. Lastly, convergent validity between the TAM and TAQ was also found to be high. We conclude that the TAM and TAQ can be used to assess touch avoidance with Italian samples. The instrument can be used to support healthcare professionals and to assess attitudes toward touch in individuals with interpersonal difficulties. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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