Development of a Body Image Concern Scale using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in Chinese university students
| Autor: | Yutian Ji, Wenxin He, Chanchan Shen, Qisha Zhu, Qiming Zheng, Wei Wang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment body image media_common.quotation_subject Population factor analysis Embarrassment Factor (chord) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences education Social avoidance Original Research media_common body dysmorphic disorder education.field_of_study business.industry questionnaire development 05 social sciences medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Distress Scale (social sciences) Body dysmorphic disorder business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment |
| ISSN: | 1178-2021 |
| Popis: | Wenxin He, Qiming Zheng, Yutian Ji, Chanchan Shen, Qisha Zhu, Wei Wang Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, People’s RepublicofChina Background: The body dysmorphic disorder is prevalent in general population and in psychiatric, dermatological, and plastic-surgery patients, but there lacks a structure-validated, comprehensive self-report measure of body image concerns, which is established through both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Methods: We have composed a 34-item matrix targeting the body image concerns and trialed it in 328 male and 365 female Chinese university students. Answers to the matrix dealt with treatments including exploratory factor analyses, reserve of qualified items, and confirmatory factor analyses of latent structures. Results: Six latent factors, namely the Social Avoidance, Appearance Dissatisfaction, Preoccupation with Reassurance, Perceived Distress/Discrimination, Defect Hiding, and Embarrassment in Public, were identified. The factors and their respective items have composed a 24-item questionnaire named as the Body Image Concern Scale. Each factor earned a satisfactory internal reliability, and the intercorrelations between these factors were in a median level. Women scored significantly higher than men did on the Appearance Dissatisfaction, Preoccupation with Reassurance, and Defect Hiding. Conclusion: The Body Image Concern Scale has displayed its structure validation and gender preponderance in Chinese university students. Keywords: body dysmorphic disorder, body image, factor analysis, questionnaire development |
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