Review of the psychometric properties of the Objective Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS) in the 2002 - 2022 time frame

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to review the psychometric properties of the Objectied Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS) in the time frame 2002 - 2022. For this purpose, a search was carried out in the ScienceDirect and WorldCat databases, where 1248 articles were identied, of which only 11 were selected (7 in the adult population and 4 in the adolescent population). The results report that the OBCS is an instrument with adequate psychometric properties, which presents different models according to the context of application (3 dimensions and 2 dimensions); 9 of 11 articles used adequate methodological aspects, while in 2 articles a very small sample size was identied for the statistical processes used; the reliability of the instrument is adequate in all its models and is always reported through the internal consistency alpha. Finally, it was identied that in the adult population, models with the original number of items, or close to it, work best; while in the adolescent population, short models with numbers close to 12 items work best; in both populations, the three-dimensional model is adequate