Psychometric Evaluation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) among Adolescents

Authors

  • Ana Carolina Soares Amaral Professora do INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO, CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DO SUDESTE DE MINAS GERAIS - CAMPUS BARBACENA. Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Pesquisadora do LABORATÓRIO DE ESTUDOS DO CORPO, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE JUIZ DE FORA
  • Maria Aparecida Conti Pesquisadora do Ambulatório de Transtornos Alimentares do Instituto de Psiquiatria da Universidade de São Paulo (AMBULIM). Professora Adjunta da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul.
  • Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras Mestranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Pesquisadora do Laboratório de Estudos do Corpo (LABESC/UFJF).
  • Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira Docente do no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Coordenadora do Laboratório de Estudos do Corpo (LABESC/UFJF)

Keywords:

Psychometrics, Body image, Adolescents, Eating disorders, Test validity

Abstract

The objective of this study was to obtain estimates of the psychometric properties of the Sociocultural Attitudes
Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 in a sample of Brazilian adolescents. The sample consisted of 600 adolescents (254 boys),
who participated in different stages of the research: assessment of verbal comprehension, construct validity, convergent validity
and reliability, and evaluation of the reproducibility (test-retest). The adolescents showed adequate verbal comprehension of all
items. The scale presented a factor structure composed of seven factors (α > 0,40), with acceptable values of the fit indices of
the model, significant positive correlation for the measures of body satisfaction (r = 0,41, p < 0,001), and reproducibility. The
psychometric quality of the SATAQ-3 among adolescents was partially confirmed, and its use is indicated for this population.

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2016-02-22

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Amaral, A. C. S., Conti, M. A., Filgueiras, J. F., & Ferreira, M. E. C. (2016). Psychometric Evaluation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) among Adolescents. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 31(4), 471–479. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18057

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