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- Title
Development and Validation of a Measure of Attitudes toward Fluffy Women.
- Authors
Barned, C.; Lipps, G. E.
- Abstract
Background: There is an absence of research on the newly evolved term "fluffy " which describes body image and personality features among women. Research on "fluffiness " among Caribbean peoples has been limited by the lack of valid and reliable measures of the concept. Objective: This project addresses this problem by exploring the internal consistency reliability and the concurrent and discriminant validity of the Attitudes toward Fluffy Women Scale (ATFW) using a mixture of past and present students from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, and the University of Technology (UTech), Kingston. Method: Past or present students from The UWI, Mona, and UTech, Kingston, were recruited for the study through the use of convenience sampling. A total of 80 students (38 males, 47.5%; 42 females, 52.5%) participated in the study. Results: Overall, the ATFW was found to have an acceptable degree of internal consistency reliability (a = 0.90). The scale also had reasonably good concurrent validity as evidenced by moderate correlations with scores on the Attitudes Toward Obese Persons Scale (r = -0.42) and acceptable discriminant validity as demonstrated through low correlations with a Bogardus Social Distance Scale designed to assess prejudice toward people living with the human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] (r = 0.29). This pattern of scores suggests that the majority of the stable variance underlying the ATFW assesses the "fluffy" concept (17.6%) while a smaller degree of the variability (8%) measures a conceptually similar but distinct concept. Conclusion: The Attitudes toward Fluffy Women scale was found to be a reliable and valid scale for assessing the attitudes of young adults toward fluffy women.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S attitudes; PERSONALITY; BODY image; BOGARDUS social distance scale; HIV infections
- Publication
West Indian Medical Journal, 2014, Vol 63, Issue 6, p626
- ISSN
0043-3144
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7727/wimj.2013.321