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Article: Symposium: social physique anxiety research and measurement: a 20-year retrospective.(PEER-REVIEWED SYMPOSIA)
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- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Item 4 of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (Hart, Leary, & Rejeski, 1989) reads, "There are times when I am bothered by thoughts that other people are evaluating my weight or muscular development negatively." How characteristic of you is this statement? Approximately 20 years ago, Elizabeth Hart defined a new body image construct that she called "social physique anxiety," and then developed and validated the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) in her master's thesis. The 1989 publication of the SPAS has proven to be a seminal article in a lively line of investigation into both the construct of "social physique anxiety" and its appropriate measurement. A recent Google ...
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