ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2016
The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in Italian Adolescent Populations: Construct Validation and Group Discrimination in Community and Clinical Eating Disorders Samples.
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- Validation of the Greek Version of Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in Adolescents and Young Adults.EMBnet.journal · 2023Article
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- Further support for the validity of the social appearance anxiety scale (SAAS) in a variety of German-speaking samples.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Women's Pathological Narcissism and its Relationship with Social Appearance Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Body Shame.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2020Article
- The relative importance of social anxiety facets on disordered eating in pediatric obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
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Abstract
Anxiety in situations where one's overall appearance (including body shape) may be negatively evaluated is hypothesized to play a central role in Eating Disorders (EDs) and in their co-occurrence with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Three studies were conducted among community (N = 1995) and clinical (N = 703) ED samples of 11- to 18-year-old Italian girls and boys to (a) evaluate the psychometric qualities and measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) of the Social Appearance Anxiety (SAA) Scale (SAAS) and (b) determine to what extent SAA or other situational domains of social anxiety related to EDs distinguish adolescents with an ED only from those with SAD. Results upheld the one-factor structure and ME/I of the SAAS across samples, gender, age categories, and diagnostic status (i.e., ED participants with and without comorbid SAD). The SAAS demonstrated high internal consistency and 3-week test-retest reliability. The strength of the inter-relationships between SAAS and measures of body image, teasing about appearance, ED symptoms, depression, social anxiety, avoidance, and distress, as well as the ability of SAAS to discriminate community adolescents with high and low levels of ED symptoms and community participants from ED participants provided construct validity evidence. Only SAA strongly differentiated adolescents with any ED from those with comorbid SAD (23.2 %). Latent mean comparisons across all study groups were performed and discussed.
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