Development and validation of the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance questionnaire‐4‐revised (SATAQ‐4R)

Abstract

Results support the reliability and validity of SATAQ-4R-Female in college women and adolescent girls, and the SATAQ-4R-Male in college men. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.(Int J Eat Disord 2017; 50:104-117).

Translation and validation of a spanish version of the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance questionnaire‐4 (SATAQ‐4)

“…The pattern of eigenvalues indicated that a five‐factor model was appropriate. These results are consistent with previous psychometric evaluations of the SATAQ‐4 in female college samples of different countries. Furthermore, results from CFA showed that, according to most fit indices, the data fit fairly well the five‐factor structure, although the RMSEA was a bit higher than recommended criteria.…”

“…An examination of eigenvalues and the scree plot showed that there were five factors with eigenvalues of 1.0 or higher (which explained 78.64% of the total variance) with an obvious leveling out point after the fifth factor, suggesting that five factors fit the data well. An EFA using principal axis factoring and promax rotation (as originally done by Schaefer et al) allowed us to clearly identify the same five‐factor solution as the original English SATAQ‐4.…”

“…To address this issue, Schaefer et al recently created the SATAQ‐4, which is a 22‐item revision of the questionnaire assessing sociocultural attitudes towards appearance through five subscales that measure: (1) thin‐ideal internalization; (2) athletic‐ideal internalization; (3) family pressure; (4) peer pressure; and (5) media pressure to attain the ideal appearance. To date, the SATAQ‐4 has been translated into Italian and has shown good factorial validity, reliability, and convergent validity in samples from Italy, England, and Australia . As it is currently not available in Spanish, the principal purpose of this study was to translate the English version of the SATAQ‐4 into Spanish, and to test its factorial validity, reliability and convergent validity in a sample of female college students from Spain.…”

Thinness and muscularity internalization: Associations with disordered eating and muscle dysmorphia in men

“…Another limitation is that the male version of the SATAQ‐4 R thin/low body fat internalization subscale includes items pertaining to thinness rather than body fat reduction, which may deter positive responses from men. However, the measure's factor structure has been well validated in a sample of men (Schaefer et al, ). Nevertheless, an important point to consider in the interpretation of the present study's findings is the meaningful differences between internalization of thin body ideal, versus internalization of a low body fat ideal as it relates to a concurrent pursuit of muscularity.…”

On the measurement of thin‐ideal internalization: Implications for interpretation of risk factors and treatment outcome in eating disorders research

“…Four measures were used: 4‐item Internalization: Thin/Low Body Fat subscale of the female version of the SATAQ‐4R (Schaefer et al, ), which assesses an individual's desire for a thin physique; 6‐item Ideal Body Stereotype Scale‐Revised (Stice et al, ), which assesses the respondent's acknowledgement that women with specific physical attributes are attractive; 28‐item Eating Disorder Examination—Questionnaire (Fairburn & Beglin, ), which yields four subscales (Restraint, Shape Concern, Weight Concern, Eating Concern) that assess disordered eating attitudes and behaviors over the last 28 days; and the 7‐item Multidimensional Body‐Self Relations Questionnaire: Appearance Evaluation subscale (Cash, ), which assesses overall appearance satisfaction.…”