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Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale among emerging adults

Journal

BODY IMAGE
Volume 43, Issue -, Pages 63-74

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.08.002

Keywords

Social media; Psychometrics; Assessment; Body image; Self-objectification

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships [1940700]
  2. National Institute of Mental Health [K23-MH122669]

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This study examined the psychometric properties of the ASMC Scale among emerging adult men and women. The results demonstrated that the ASMC Scale has good reliability and validity, and can be used to investigate social media experiences and mental health.
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, in-dustrialized 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 ap-pearance 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.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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