ADAPTATION OF THE SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY SCALE (SAAS) TO TURKISH: A VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY

Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS) was developed to measure social appearance by Hart et al., (2008). The purpose of the present study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale. 340 university students (143 female, 197 male) participated in the study. The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) was used for the criterion validity. In order to determine the construct validity of The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS), exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. The factor analysis resulted in a factors. The Cronbachʹs alpha for the SAAS was .93 and split-half .88. The computed test re-test reliability coefficient for the SAAS was .85. There was . 60 correlation between SAAS and BFNE. Item-total correlation coefficients of the Turkish SAAS ranged from .32 to .82. Analysis demonstrated that SAAS had a satisfactory level of reliability and validity in Turkish university students.