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Validity and factorial invariance of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2000
The present study 1) tested whether the two-factor model to the 12-item Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) was substantively meaningful or a methodological artifact representing positively and negatively worded items, 2) assessed the factorial validity of the nine-item unidimensional model to the SPAS, 3) examined whether modifying the number of SPAS
R W, Motl, D E, Conroy
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Social physique anxiety and disordered eating: what’s the connection?

Addictive Behaviors, 1998
Social physique anxiety (SPA) is highly correlated with other body image measures that have been considered to be important in understanding eating disorders. However, SPA has not been directly studied with respect to eating disorders. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to examine the link between SPA and measures of eating disorder ...
N S, Diehl, C E, Johnson, R L, Rogers, T A, Petrie   +3 more
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Measurement of Social Physique Anxiety in Early Adolescence

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2004
The present study assessed the factorial validity and gender invariance of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) using a sample of young adolescents. Existing SPAS 12-item, one- and two-factor and truncated, one-factor (i.e., nine-item and seven-item) measurement models reported in the adult literature were explored, with emphasis placed on the ...
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SOCIAL PHYSIQUE ANXIETY PADA ATLET PENYANDANG DISABILITAS

JURNAL ILMU KEOLAHRAGAAN, 2023
Atlet penyandang disabilitas merupakan individu yang memiliki keterbatasan dalam hal tertentu. Keterbatasan yang berbeda dan terlihat jelas, serta adanya arti penting citra tubuh dalam olahraga memungkinkan hadirnya stigma negatif yang dapat memicu social physique anxiety cukup tinggi.
Pratiwi, Isti Fauziah, Jajat, Jajat, Ugelta, Surdiniarty, Suherman, Adang, Ruhayati, Yati, Rahayu, Nur Indri, Sultoni, Kuston, Damayanti, Imas   +7 more
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Active Women, Social Physique Anxiety, and Exercise

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1994
The purpose of this investigation was to replicate and extend Crawford and Eklund's (1994) investigation of social physique anxiety (SPA) and exercise. Women (N = 94) enrolled in physical education activity or major classes participated in the investigation.
Robert C. Eklund, Sally Crawford
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Social Physique Anxiety in Competitive Women Athletes

Journal of Gender, Culture and Health, 1998
Social physique anxiety (SPA) is the anxiety that people feel when their physique or body is evaluated by others. This research explored the relationships among SPA, type of sport participation, and body size in female athletes. It was hypothesized that elite women athletes would have lower levels of SPA than nonelite athletes and that lightweight ...
Judy L. Van Raalte, Gretchen L. Schmelzer, Corinne C. Smith, Britton W. Brewer   +3 more
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Young Women's Experiences of Social Physique Anxiety

Feminism & Psychology, 2008
It is well documented that young women's social physique anxiety is associated with a number of health-compromising behaviors. The bulk of this research has used the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS); however, the use of questionnaires in the body domain has been critiqued because of the assumption that women's experiences are singular and static ...
Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, Kent C. Kowalski, Diane E. Mack, Peter R.E. Crocker, Sarah E. Junkin, Lisa K. Lejbak, Stephanie Martin   +6 more
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A Mediational Model of Social Physique Anxiety and Eating Disordered Behaviors

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1998
In the present study correlations among scores on social physique anxiety, social behavior inhibition, and eating disordered behaviors and traits were hypothesized on the basis that social physique anxiety would be correlated with personality disturbances associated with eating disorders and mediated by social inhibition and eating disordered behaviors.
C M, Frederick, C S, Morrison
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Construct Validity of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale in a French Adolescent Sample

Journal of Personality Assessment, 2010
We conducted a series of studies to investigate the psychometric properties of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS; Hart, Leary, & Rejeski, 1989) among a total sample of 1,563 nonclinical French adolescents. The, first study provided support for the item content of the preliminary version of the French SPAS for adolescents.
Maiano, Christophe, Morin, Alexandre, Eklund, Robert, Monthuy-Blanc, Johana, Garbarino, Jean, Stephan, Yannick   +5 more
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Exercise dependence and social physique anxiety in competitive and non‐competitive runners

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2010
Abstract This study examined differences in exercise dependence and social physique anxiety between competitive and non‐competitive runners. One hundred and eighty four distance runners were assigned to four groups on the basis of their competitive status and sex.
Smith, Dave, Wright, Caroline J., Winrow, Dominic   +2 more
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