RELIABLE AND VALIDATED SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY SELF-REPORT MEASURE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Nor Ba'yah Abdul Kadir, Roseliza Murni AB Rahman, Asmawati Desa

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Social appearance is common among university students in Malaysia. In this study, we examine the reliability and validity of the SAAS in a sample of university students in Malaysia. This study aims to examine internal consistency and to validate the social appearance anxiety scale for Malaysian university students. Using a systematic random sampling, a set of questions was distributed to 400 academic college residents of a public university in Malaysia with a response rate of 86%. The student participants completed the social appearance anxiety scale, the social interaction anxiety scale, the brief fear of negative evaluation scale, and the general health questionnaire.  The internal consistency of questions within the social appearance anxiety scale was 0.92. The social appearance anxiety scale had good convergent validity with the social interaction anxiety scale (r=0.55), the brief fear of negative evaluation (r=0.69, p<.01), and the general health questionnaire (r=0.24, p<.01).  The findings suggested that the social appearance anxiety scale was comparable, reliable and suitable for use among undergraduate students in Malaysia.


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