title: A Spanish version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3): translation and psychometric evaluation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The goal of this study was to translate the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3; Thompson, van den Berg, Roehrig, Guarda, & Heinberg, 2004) into Spanish and psychometrically evaluate the comparability of the Spanish translation to the original English version.
  
  
  METHODS
  638 female college students from Spain and the United States completed the SATAQ-3 in Spanish and English, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Internal consistency was high in both languages. Tests of factor equivalence suggested that the four pre-established factors of the SATAQ-3 (i.e., knowledge, perceived pressure, thin-ideal internalization, athletic-ideal internalization) were relatively similar between the two groups. Differences that emerged between groups (on items 6 and 20) were in the expected direction and appeared to be influenced by reverse-scoring or item wording.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results support the psychometric properties of this Spanish translation of the SATAQ-3 and support its use to measure endorsement of Western values and ideals of appearance in adult women.
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Magisterio, Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria, Spain. enrique.llorente@ehu.es
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Llorente
authors.forename: Cortney S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: Lourdes Pérez
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: de Eulate
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Gleaves
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001828:Body Image; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012938:Social Perception; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014175:Translating; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult