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Construct validity of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale in a French adolescent sample
Christophe Maïano1, Alexandre J S Morin, Robert C Eklund
1UMR 6233 Institute of Movement Sciences, Etienne-Jules Marey, CNRS-University of Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France. christophe.maiano@univmed.fr
Abstract:
We conducted a series of studies to investigate the psychometric properties of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS; Hart, Leary, & Rejeski, 1989) among a total sample of 1,563 nonclinical French adolescents. The, first study provided support for the item content of the preliminary version of the French SPAS for adolescents. Then, the second study supported the convergent validity of the English and French version of the SPAS. Finally, Studies 3 to 6 provided support for the factor validity, measurement invariance (across genders, age groups and samples), latent mean structure invariance (across age category and samples), reliability, convergent validity, and criterion-related validity of a 7-item version of the SPAS.
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