Department of Psychology, Neapolis University Pafos, Pafos, Cyprus.
Clin Obes. 2023 Feb;13(1):e12565. doi: 10.1111/cob.12565. Epub 2022 Nov 16.
The Anti-Fat Attitudes Questionnaire (AFA) measures prejudicial attitudes that are held about individuals with overweight BMI or obesity. Despite increased interest in research on anti-fat attitudes worldwide, the psychometric properties of the AFA have rarely been examined in non-English speaking populations. The present study aimed to address this gap in the literature by translating and validating the AFA in the Greek language. An online, community-based sample of 642 individuals (364 women) responded to the Greek translation of the AFA and measures of appearance satisfaction and appreciation, disordered eating, self-esteem and depression. Results indicated that the original three-factor solution of the AFA was maintained in both the Principal and Confirmatory Factor Analyses. Additionally, internal consistency, test-retest reliability and convergent validity all showed adequate results. These findings provide support for the use of the AFA in Greek-speaking populations. The availability of the Greek AFA adds to the toolbox of body image scholars working in the Greek context.
《反肥胖态度问卷》（AFA）衡量了人们对超重 BMI 或肥胖个体的偏见态度。尽管全球对反肥胖态度的研究兴趣日益增加，但 AFA 的心理测量特性在非英语人群中很少得到检验。本研究旨在通过在希腊语中翻译和验证 AFA 来填补文献中的这一空白。一个基于社区的在线样本，共有 642 人（364 名女性）对 AFA 的希腊语翻译以及外貌满意度和欣赏、饮食失调、自尊和抑郁的测量进行了回答。结果表明，AFA 的原始三因素结构在主成分和验证性因素分析中均得到保留。此外，内部一致性、重测信度和收敛效度均表现出良好的结果。这些发现为在希腊语人群中使用 AFA 提供了支持。希腊 AFA 的可用性增加了在希腊语境下从事身体意象研究的学者的工具包。
