University of Delaware, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 105 The Green, Newark, DE 19716, USA; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, 210 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA.
University of Delaware, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 105 The Green, Newark, DE 19716, USA; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, 210 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA.
Body Image. 2022 Dec;43:63-74. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.08.002. Epub 2022 Aug 30.
Appearance-related social media consciousness (ASMC) is the persistent awareness of one's attractiveness on social media. The ASMC Scale, recently developed for use with adolescents (Choukas-Bradley et al., 2020), provides a promising tool for systematically examining ASMC and associations with mental health. The current study examined the psychometric properties of the ASMC Scale among emerging adult men and women. Participants for Study 1 were 428 emerging adults (M age = 21.9) from five Anglophone, industrialized countries (U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Results from Study 1 provide evidence that the 13-item ASMC Scale has a unidimensional structure, strong internal consistency, measurement invariance across gender, and convergent validity (i.e., associations with related offline appearance concerns and cognitions) and incremental validity (i.e., associations with depressive symptoms and disordered eating, above and beyond time spent on social media). Participants from Study 2 were 296 U.S. college students (M age = 18.6). Results from Study 2 confirmed the factor structure and further demonstrated the convergent and incremental validity (above and beyond both time spent on social media and offline appearance concerns) of the ASMC Scale. Findings suggest that the ASMC Scale can be used among emerging adults, aiding future research investigating social media experiences and mental health.
外貌相关社交媒体意识（ASMC）是指个体在社交媒体上对自身吸引力的持续关注。最近开发的用于青少年的 ASMC 量表（Choukas-Bradley 等人，2020）为系统地研究 ASMC 及其与心理健康的关联提供了一种有前途的工具。本研究在成年早期男性和女性中检验了 ASMC 量表的心理测量特性。研究 1 的参与者是来自五个英语国家/地区（美国、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰）的 428 名成年早期个体（M 年龄=21.9）。研究 1 的结果表明，13 项 ASMC 量表具有单一维度结构、较强的内部一致性、跨性别测量不变性以及与相关线下外貌关注和认知的聚合效度（即与抑郁症状和饮食失调的关联，超出了社交媒体的使用时间）和增量效度（即与抑郁症状和饮食失调的关联，超出了社交媒体的使用时间）。研究 2 的参与者是 296 名美国大学生（M 年龄=18.6）。研究 2 的结果证实了该量表的结构，并进一步证明了 ASMC 量表的聚合效度和增量效度（超出了社交媒体的使用时间和线下外貌关注）。研究结果表明，ASMC 量表可以在成年早期个体中使用，有助于未来研究社交媒体体验与心理健康之间的关系。
