PREVI Clinical Center, Valencia, Spain.
Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2012 May;20(3):255-6. doi: 10.1002/erv.2156. Epub 2012 Jan 27.
The purpose of the present study was to analyse the psychometric properties of the 'Questionnaire of Sociocultural Influences on the Aesthetic Body Shape Model' (CIMEC-26) in a Spanish adolescent population. This questionnaire measures the influence of agents and situations that transmit the current aesthetic model, and assesses environmental influences favouring thinness. The CIMEC-26 was administered to a sample of 4031 female primary and secondary school students ranging in age from 10 to 17 years (M = 14, SD = 1.34). Results suggested that the CIMEC-26 has acceptable internal consistency (α = .93). The oldest group (15-17 years) had the highest scores on all factors and the highest total scores, suggesting greater influence of the aesthetic body shape model and higher vulnerability to social pressure to achieve it. Factor analysis suggested three moderately interrelated components of the scale. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that both the three-factor solution and the original five-factor structure had good fit indices, although the latter showed the best fit. The CIMEC-26 proved to be an effective instrument for research on the social influence on the aesthetic body model in female adolescents.
本研究的目的是分析“审美体型模型的社会文化影响问卷”（CIMEC-26）在西班牙青少年人群中的心理测量特性。该问卷用于测量传达当前审美模型的代理人和情境的影响，并评估有利于瘦身的环境影响。CIMEC-26 被用于一个由 4031 名年龄在 10 至 17 岁的小学生和中学生组成的样本中（M=14，SD=1.34）。结果表明，CIMEC-26 具有可接受的内部一致性（α=.93）。年龄最大的组（15-17 岁）在所有因素和总分上的得分最高，表明审美体型模型的影响更大，更容易受到实现这一目标的社会压力的影响。因子分析表明，该量表有三个中等程度相互关联的成分。验证性因子分析表明，三因素解和原始五因素结构都具有良好的拟合指数，尽管后者的拟合效果更好。CIMEC-26 被证明是研究女性青少年审美体型模型社会影响的有效工具。
