title: Validation of an Italian version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) on adolescent girls.
abstract: The present study used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to investigate the factor structure of an Italian version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) with a sample of 598 adolescent girls. Results of EFA indicated a four-factor structure: Information, Pressures, Internalization-General, and Internalization-Athlete. Factor loadings confirmed the original structure of the scale, except for one item. As expected, the four factors appeared to be slightly correlated. Cronbach's alphas for the four subscales were uniformly high: Information=.91, Pressures=.91, Internalization-General=.94, Internalization-Athlete=.84. Convergent validity of this Italian version of the SATAQ-3 was found to be good. SATAQ-3 seems useful to measure different aspects of societal influences on body image in Italian contexts. Future studies could subject SATAQ-3 to a confirmatory factor analysis in order to confirm the adequate fit of the model according to conventional criteria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. stefanile@psico.unifi.it
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stefanile
authors.forename: Camilla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matera
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nerini
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pisani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D001504:Beauty; D001828:Body Image; D049628:Body Size; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007558:Italy; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012016:Reference Values; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012945:Social Values; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013851:Thinness / Q000523:psychology; D014175:Translating