Department of Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK; Centre for Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Serdang, Malaysia.
Department of Psychology, West University of Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania.
Body Image. 2018 Jun;25:48-55. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.02.004. Epub 2018 Feb 21.
We examined the psychometric properties of a Romanian translation of the 15-item Drive for Muscularity Scale (DMS). Male university students from Romania (N = 343) completed the DMS, as well as measures of self-esteem, body appreciation, and muscle discrepancy. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that DMS scores reduced to two factors that related to muscularity-oriented attitudes and behaviours, with both first-order factors loading onto a higher-order factor. However, confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a model with two first-order factors and a higher-order factor had poor fit. A two-factor model without a higher-order construct achieved acceptable but mediocre fit. Scores on the two-factor DMS model had adequate internal consistency and demonstrated acceptable convergent validity (significant correlations with self-esteem, body appreciation, and muscle discrepancy). These results provide support for a two-factor model of DMS scores in a Romanian-speaking sample and extends the availability of the DMS to a rarely-examined linguistic group.
我们考察了罗马尼亚语翻译的 15 项肌肉发达驱力量表（DMS）的心理测量特性。罗马尼亚的男性大学生（N=343）完成了 DMS 以及自尊、身体欣赏和肌肉差异的测量。探索性因素分析表明，DMS 分数减少到两个与肌肉发达导向的态度和行为相关的因素，这两个一阶因素都加载到一个高阶因素上。然而，验证性因素分析表明，一个具有两个一阶因素和一个高阶因素的模型拟合度较差。一个没有高阶结构的两因素模型达到了可接受但平庸的拟合度。两因素 DMS 模型的分数具有足够的内部一致性，并表现出可接受的收敛效度（与自尊、身体欣赏和肌肉差异显著相关）。这些结果为罗马尼亚语样本中 DMS 分数的两因素模型提供了支持，并将 DMS 扩展到一个很少被研究的语言群体。
