| Abstract: | The present work is an attempt to assess the psychometric properties of an adaptation in French of the Self-Consciousness Scale developed by Fenigstein, Scheier, and Buss (1975). The scale is composed of 23 items, distributed in three subscales: private self-consciousness (SC), public SC, and social anxiety. The French version was administered to three distinct samples: two groups of undergraduate students (n = 196; n = 217) and a third one of psychologists (n = 411). Overall, results show that each subscale is homogeneous with appropriate test-retest reliabilities over a two-week period. As expected, private and public SC correlate moderately, whereas social anxiety and private SC are not related Principal components factor analyses show that the scale is in fact composed of three orthogonal factors, in accordance with the three scales. The results in general point to the adequacy of the current adaptation in French of the Self-Consciousness Scale, which presents the same basic properties as the original. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
