Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3): un primo contributo alla validazione della versione italiana con un campione di adolescenti maschi

Summary This research aimed to investigate the factor structure of an Italian version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) through exploratory factor analysis (N = 322) and to examine convergent validity of the scale (N = 159) with adolescent males. Results of factor analysis indicated a four-factor structure (Information, Pressures, Internalization-General, Internalization-Athlete) confirming the original structure of the scale. Cronbach’s alphas were quite high for the four subscales (Information = .89, Pressures = .83, Internalization-General = .93, Internalization-Athlete = .84), and convergent validity was found to be good. The SATAQ-3 seems useful to measure different aspects of sociocultural influences on adolescent males’ body image in the Italian context.