Dimensionality of Revisited Body Awareness

Abstract

A semantic analysis of the 108 items and 8 scales of the Body Focus Questionnaire has previously suggested that 11 items depress correlations involving 6 of the scales. Empirical correlations, established for regular and for revised scores obtained by leaving out the 11 items, show an average increase for the latter of .11 and .17 for the six scales. Correlation matrices for the six revised scales yield two eigenvalues larger than 1.00 for men and only one for women. Independence of the regular scales appears artifactual.