title: The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3: a confirmatory factor analysis.
abstract: The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 measures awareness and endorsement of societal appearance standards. The instrument has been subjected to exploratory factor analyses but to date no studies have reported a priori tests of its hypothesized factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The aim of the present study was to subject the SATAQ-3 to a CFA. Results from a non-clinical convenience sample of 369 women revealed an adequate fit of the model according to conventional criteria. However, detailed residual analysis indicated a significant lack of fit which was explainable by one mis-specified item and shared method variance due to similarities in item content. It was concluded that, with the removal of the mis-specified item, the degree of misfit was tolerable and the intended four-factor solution provides a satisfactory and parsimonious representation of the data.
authors.affiliation: School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Holyhead Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2PZ, UK. d.a.markland@bangor.ac.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Markland
authors.forename: Emily J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Oliver
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D001828:Body Image; D003469:Culture; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012928:Social Desirability; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires