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Weight concerns scale applied to college students: comparison between pencil-and-paper and online formats
- Source :
- Currículo Lattes, Repositório Institucional da UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), instacron:UNESP, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-06T16:13:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Online data collection is becoming increasingly common and has some advantages compared to traditional paper-and-pencil formats, such as reducing loss of data, increasing participants' privacy, and decreasing the effect of social desirability. However, the validity and reliability of this administration format must be established before results can be considered acceptable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity, reliability, and equivalence of paper-and-pencil and online versions of the Weight Concerns Scale (WCS) when applied to Brazilian university students. A crossover design was used, and the Portuguese version of the WCS (in both paper-and-pencil and online formats) was completed by 100 college students. The results indicated adequate fit in both formats. The simultaneous fit of data for both groups was excellent, with strong invariance between models. Adequate convergent validity, internal consistency, and mean score equivalence of the WCS in both formats were observed. Thus, the WCS presented adequate reliability and validity in both administration formats, with equivalence/stability between answers. Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Odontologia Social, Faculdade de Odontologia de Araraquara, Araraquara, Rua Humaitá 1680, Centro, CEP 14801-385, SP, Brasil Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Odontologia Social, Faculdade de Odontologia de Araraquara, Araraquara, Rua Humaitá 1680, Centro, CEP 14801-385, SP, Brasil FAPESP: 2010/18279-3
- Subjects :
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
Male
Social Psychology
Psychometrics
Adolescent
Computer science
Validity
computer.software_genre
Electronic mail
Young Adult
Surveys and Questionnaires
Body Image
Humans
Students
Equivalence (measure theory)
Applied Psychology
Reliability (statistics)
Internet
Information retrieval
Data collection
Cross-Over Studies
Electronic Mail
Communication
Body Weight
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Translating
Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Convergent validity
Rapid Communications
Scale (social sciences)
Female
Data mining
computer
Brazil
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21522723
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c3fafb31250485f13b11563dff5ce7b1