The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus.
The Experience of Embodiment Scale (EES) is a recently developed instrument that assesses experiences of living in the body. Here, we prepared a novel Greek translation of the EES and examined its psychometric properties. We initially prepared a Greek translation of the EES using a 5-step procedure...
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| description | The Experience of Embodiment Scale (EES) is a recently developed instrument that assesses experiences of living in the body. Here, we prepared a novel Greek translation of the EES and examined its psychometric properties. We initially prepared a Greek translation of the EES using a 5-step procedure recommended for test adaptation studies. Next, in a cross-sectional study, we asked a sample of 933 women from Cyprus to complete the Greek EES, alongside additional, previously validated measures assessing body appreciation, psychological well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction), eating restriction, perfectionism, and internalisation of appearance ideals. Our analyses showed that EES factorial models based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) roundly had poor fit. Conversely, models based on exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM)-which accounts for the fact that EES items cross-load across factors-had adequate fit to the data. Additionally, we found that both higher-order and bifactor-ESEM models that controlled for the uniqueness of negatively worded items had adequate fit. The bifactor-ESEM model had the best fit of all the models tested, and was invariant across ethnicity (Greeks and Greek-Cypriots) and was unaffected by differential item functioning based on age and body mass index. Additionally, construct validity of the final, optimal model was adequate, especially for its G-factor, as indicated by significant associations with additional constructs in expected directions. These results suggest that a bifactor-ESEM model of the Greek EES has adequate psychometric properties. Our work highlights important psychometric issues relating to the manner in which the EES should (or could) be conceptualised and modelled, which should be considered more fully in future work. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-24666d7e29ef42e5823dc788e4fad0ac2025-01-08T05:33:32ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-01195e030326810.1371/journal.pone.0303268The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus.Viren SwamiChristophe MaïanoMarios ArgyridesElly AnastasiadesThe Experience of Embodiment Scale (EES) is a recently developed instrument that assesses experiences of living in the body. Here, we prepared a novel Greek translation of the EES and examined its psychometric properties. We initially prepared a Greek translation of the EES using a 5-step procedure recommended for test adaptation studies. Next, in a cross-sectional study, we asked a sample of 933 women from Cyprus to complete the Greek EES, alongside additional, previously validated measures assessing body appreciation, psychological well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction), eating restriction, perfectionism, and internalisation of appearance ideals. Our analyses showed that EES factorial models based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) roundly had poor fit. Conversely, models based on exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM)-which accounts for the fact that EES items cross-load across factors-had adequate fit to the data. Additionally, we found that both higher-order and bifactor-ESEM models that controlled for the uniqueness of negatively worded items had adequate fit. The bifactor-ESEM model had the best fit of all the models tested, and was invariant across ethnicity (Greeks and Greek-Cypriots) and was unaffected by differential item functioning based on age and body mass index. Additionally, construct validity of the final, optimal model was adequate, especially for its G-factor, as indicated by significant associations with additional constructs in expected directions. These results suggest that a bifactor-ESEM model of the Greek EES has adequate psychometric properties. Our work highlights important psychometric issues relating to the manner in which the EES should (or could) be conceptualised and modelled, which should be considered more fully in future work.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0303268&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Viren Swami Christophe Maïano Marios Argyrides Elly Anastasiades The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus. PLoS ONE |
| title | The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus. |
| title_full | The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus. |
| title_fullStr | The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus. |
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| title_short | The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus. |
| title_sort | experience of embodiment scale an examination of its psychometric properties in women from the republic of cyprus |
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