Tang Chanyuan, Barnhart Wesley R, Zhang Bin, He Jinbo
School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518172, Guangdong, China.
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
Eat Weight Disord. 2022 Dec;27(8):3187-3196. doi: 10.1007/s40519-022-01448-w. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
The Female Muscularity Scale (FMS) was specifically developed for assessing drive for muscularity in women. The current study aimed to translate the FMS into Chinese (FMS-C) and examine its psychometric properties among Chinese young women.
Based on standard procedures, the FMS was translated into Chinese. By using the psych and lavaan packages on R version 4.0.3, the current study examined the factor structure, reliability, and convergent and incremental validity of the FMS-C with a sample of 517 Chinese women college students ([Formula: see text]= 18.86 years).
Results showed a 2-factor structure including attitudes and behaviors of the FMS-C. The internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's α) was .91 for the total FMS-C scale and .89 and .88 for the Attitudes and Behaviors subscales, respectively. Results also revealed evidence for good convergent and incremental validity of the FMS-C.
Findings suggest that the FMS-C can be a useful tool to measure both attitudes and behaviors underlying drive for muscularity and muscle tone concerns among Chinese young women.
Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study.
女性肌肉量量表（FMS）是专门为评估女性对肌肉量的追求而开发的。本研究旨在将FMS翻译成中文（FMS-C），并在中国年轻女性中检验其心理测量特性。
按照标准程序将FMS翻译成中文。本研究使用R版本4.0.3上的psych和lavaan软件包，以517名中国女大学生（[公式：见正文]=18.86岁）为样本，检验了FMS-C的因子结构、信度、收敛效度和增量效度。
结果显示FMS-C具有包括态度和行为的两因子结构。FMS-C总量表的内部一致性信度（克朗巴哈α系数）为0.91，态度和行为分量表的内部一致性信度分别为0.89和0.88。结果还显示了FMS-C具有良好的收敛效度和增量效度的证据。
研究结果表明，FMS-C可以作为一种有用的工具，用于测量中国年轻女性对肌肉量的追求以及对肌肉张力关注背后的态度和行为。
V级，横断面描述性研究。
