The Body Image Psychological Inflexibility Scale: development and psychometric properties

Glenn M Callaghan¹, Emily K Sandoz², Sabrina M Darrow³, Timothy K Feeney⁴

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¹ Department of Psychology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States.
² Department of Psychology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States.

PMID: 25618470
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.039

The Body Image Psychological Inflexibility Scale: development and psychometric properties

Glenn M Callaghan et al. Psychiatry Res. 2015.

. 2015 Mar 30;226(1):45-52.

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.039. Epub 2014 Dec 8.

Authors

Glenn M Callaghan¹, Emily K Sandoz², Sabrina M Darrow³, Timothy K Feeney⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States.
² Department of Psychology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States.

PMID: 25618470
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.039

Abstract

Body image disturbance and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have been researched from a variety of psychological approaches. Psychological inflexibility, or avoidance of one's own cognitive and affective states at a cost to personal values, may be a useful construct to understand these problems. In an effort to clarify the role of psychological inflexibility in body image disturbance and BDD, a measure was created based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The scale was developed by generating new items to represent the construct and revising items from an existing scale measuring aspects of body image psychological inflexibility. The study was conducted with an ethnically diverse undergraduate population using three samples during the validation process. Participants completed multiple assessments to determine the validity of the measure and were interviewed for BDD. The 16-item scale has internal consistency (α = 0.93), a single factor solution, convergent validity, and test re-test reliability (r = 0.90). Data demonstrate a relationship between psychological inflexibility and body image disturbance indicating empirical support for an ACT conceptualization of body image problems and the use of this measure for body image disturbance and BDD.

Keywords: Acceptance; Assessment; Avoidance; Body dysmorphic disorder; Body image disturbance; Body image flexibility; Measurement.

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