Adaptación del Cuestionario SATAQ-3 para evaluación del impacto de las redes sociales en la percepción de apariencia física de estudiantes universitarios

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Abstract:The objective was to adapt the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3) to assess the impact of social networks on the perception of physical appearance of university students. The sample was 381 university students using social networks, stratified by sex and university. The research design is psychometric, prospective and transversal. An ad-hoc sociodemographic survey, the SATAQ-Social Networks (RS) (versions 1, 2, 3 and 4), three evaluation rubrics for experts (linguists, psychologists and communicators) was applied. The expert evaluation determined that the instruction of the SATAQ-RS should include the generic name social networks , the response form should be the original Likert of SATAQ-3 and that 23 of 30 items had no substantial changes compared to the first version. The internal consistency index of the SATAQ-RS using the Cronbach's Alpha for 30 items was 0.94 and for each factor: 0.94 information, general internal pressure and 0.97, athletic internalization of 0.94, negative Items factor of 0.89. With the four factors obtained in the exploratory factor analysis, 75.28% of the variance can be explained.