Western University, Department of Psychology, London, ON, Canada.
Colorado College, Department of Psychology, Colorado, CO, USA.
Body Image. 2021 Dec;39:90-102. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.06.001. Epub 2021 Jul 1.
Body shame is a common experience among women yet a challenging phenomenon to operationalize, and measures of body shame often fail to capture its embodied aspects. In this article, we examined the structural and psychometric properties of an existing measure of body shame that was developed by Fredrickson et al. (1998) to assess the motivational and behavioral components of feeling body shame. Across three studies, women participants completed the Phenomenological Body Shame Scale (PBSS) and measures of theoretically related constructs in counterbalanced order via online survey platforms. The results demonstrate evidence of construct validity for an abbreviated, 8-item measure of phenomenological body shame (PBSS-R). In Study 1 (n = 341 community women), we evaluated and confirmed the scale's structural validity as a unidimensional measure. In Study 2 (n = 204 college women), we demonstrated positive associations between the PBSS-R and negative body image attitudes and behaviors, and negative associations with self-compassion, supporting the scale's external validity. In Study 3 (n = 235 community women), the PBSS-R explained variance in intuitive eating and happiness above theoretically related measures of self-objectification and body shame, supporting the scale's incremental validity. We recommend use of this abbreviated measure to assess the more embodied and less evaluative features of body shame in women.
身体羞耻感是女性中常见的一种体验，但却是一种难以操作的现象，并且身体羞耻感的测量方法往往无法捕捉其具体的方面。在本文中，我们检验了弗雷德里克森等人（1998 年）开发的一种身体羞耻感现有测量方法的结构和心理测量特性，该方法用于评估身体羞耻感的动机和行为成分。在三项研究中，女性参与者通过在线调查平台以交替的顺序完成了现象学身体羞耻量表（PBSS）和与理论相关的测量。结果表明，一种简短的、8 项的现象学身体羞耻感（PBSS-R）测量具有结构有效性的证据。在研究 1（n = 341 名社区女性）中，我们评估并确认了该量表作为一个单一维度测量的结构有效性。在研究 2（n = 204 名大学生女性）中，我们证明了 PBSS-R 与消极的身体意象和行为之间存在积极的关联，与自我同情之间存在消极的关联，支持了该量表的外部有效性。在研究 3（n = 235 名社区女性）中，PBSS-R 解释了直觉饮食和幸福感的方差，超过了自我客观化和身体羞耻感的理论相关测量，支持了该量表的增量有效性。我们建议使用这种简化的测量方法来评估女性身体羞耻感中更具具体性和更少评价性的特征。
