Reliability and Construct Validity of the Body Cathexis Scale

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 927-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Balogun
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Body Cathexis ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the reliability and validity of the Body Cathexis Scale, testing 50 female college students (At age 24.2 ± 1.8 yr.) who completed the Tennessee Self-concept Scale and the Body Cathexis Scale. Two weeks later, the subjects were readministered the Body Cathexis Scale. Pearson's correlations were computed to determine the reliability of the Body Cathexis Scale and the relationship between the Body Cathexis Scale and 7 Tennessee Self-concept subscales. Test-retest reliability was .89. Scores on the Body Cathexis Scale were significantly correlated with those on physical self (.64), personal self (.60), family self (.35), social self (.62) and total positive (.62), but not with moral-ethical self (.23) or self-criticism (– .05). The findings suggest that the Body Cathexis Scale is reliable and has a measure of construct validity.

BOLD BUILD PERCEPTIONS IN MALE AND FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger C. Bailey ◽  
Norman E. Hankins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Close Agreement ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Body Build ◽  
Males And Females

The Somatotype Rating Scale (SRS) was administered to 35 male and 35 female college students. The SRS allowed subjects to rate their own body build, their wished-for body build, and the body build of the typical and ideal male and female. While there was close agreement between males and females on the measures, females exhibited more dissatisfaction with their body build and greater congruency between their self-concept and their same-sex stereotype than did males. Results were discussed as possibly revealing the emergence of a mesomorphic body build ideal in both sexes.

The Personal Attribute Inventory as a Self Concept Scale: A Preliminary Report

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1141-1142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Parish ◽  
Gerald M. Eads ◽  
David E. Adams
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Personal Attribute ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Female College ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Self-concept scores on the 100-item Personal Attribute Inventory of 6 male and 36 female college students were significantly correlated (.80) with their scores on the 75-item “Unfavorable” subscale and (—.73) on the 75-item “Favorable” subscale of the Adjective Check List. In a second study with 16 males and 34 females, 4-wk. test-retest reliability for the inventory was .83.

New Assessments of Weight-Related Body Image Derived from Extant Instruments

1991 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Cash ◽  
Katherine C. Wood ◽  
Kimberly D. Phelps ◽  
Karen Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Actual Body Weight ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Negative Body Image ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

A study of 79 female college students examined the reliability and validity of two new size/weight-related measures of body image. The Body-size Appraisal Scale and the Overweight Preoccupation Scale were derived from existing instruments. Analyses supported the internal consistency and 2-wk. test-retest reliability of both new scales. Correlations of scores on each scale with measures of anxiety about being fat, negative body-image affect and avoidance, restrained and bulimic eating, and depression support their concurrent and construct validity. Scores on the Overweight Preoccupation Scale were also related to the extent of investment in physical appearance. Regression analyses indicated that each new scale could be predicted from several other conceptually relevant body-image attitudes, even after actual body weight was controlled.

Effect of Exposure to Photographs of Thin Models on Self-Consciousness in Female College Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1149-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandy S. Wegner ◽  
Anita M. Hartmann ◽  
C. R. Geist
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Women ◽  
Print Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Female College ◽  
Body Self

The purpose of this study was to assess the immediate influence of brief exposure to images taken from print media on the general self-consciousness and body self-consciousness of 67 college women. After viewing photographs of either thin female models or control photographs, the women completed the Self-consciousness Scale and the Body Self-consciousness Questionnaire. Although a was .45, the college women who looked at images of thin female models gave immediate ratings significantly ( p < .001) higher on both general Self-consciousness and Body Self-consciousness than those who looked at control images.

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