Anastasiades Elly, Todd Jennifer, Argyrides Marios, Swami Viren
Department of Psychology, Neapolis University, Pafos, Cyprus.
School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Body Image. 2023 Jun;45:25-33. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.01.010. Epub 2023 Feb 8.
The Functionality Appreciation Scale is a widely used instrument for the measurement of an individual's appreciation of their body for what it can do and is capable of doing (i.e., functionality appreciation). In the present study, we examined the psychometric properties of a novel Greek translation of the FAS in Cypriot adults. A total of 448 women and 345 men from the Republic of Cyprus completed the FAS, as well as validated measures of body appreciation, appearance evaluation, and symptoms of disordered eating, and self-esteem. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a unidimensional model of FAS scores, with all 7 items retained. Scores achieved scalar invariance across gender, with the gender difference in FAS scores not reaching significance. FAS scores were also found to have adequate composite reliability and convergent (significant associations with body appreciation, appearance evaluation, and symptoms of disordered eating) and concurrent validity (significant associations with self-esteem). Finally, functionality appreciation predicted self-esteem once the effects of all other variables had been accounted for, supporting incremental validity. Overall, these results suggest that the Greek FAS is a psychometrically valid tool for the assessment of functionality appreciation in adults from Cyprus.
功能欣赏量表是一种广泛使用的工具，用于衡量个体对自己身体所能做之事和能够做之事的欣赏程度（即功能欣赏）。在本研究中，我们检验了功能欣赏量表全新希腊语译本在塞浦路斯成年人中的心理测量特性。来自塞浦路斯共和国的448名女性和345名男性完成了功能欣赏量表，以及经过验证的身体欣赏、外貌评价、饮食失调症状和自尊的测量。探索性和验证性因素分析支持功能欣赏量表得分的单维模型，保留了所有7个项目。得分在性别间实现了标量不变性，功能欣赏量表得分的性别差异不显著。还发现功能欣赏量表得分具有足够的组合信度以及收敛效度（与身体欣赏、外貌评价和饮食失调症状有显著关联）和同时效度（与自尊有显著关联）。最后，在考虑了所有其他变量的影响后，功能欣赏预测了自尊，支持了增量效度。总体而言，这些结果表明希腊语功能欣赏量表是评估塞浦路斯成年人功能欣赏的一种心理测量有效的工具。
