TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of body elimination attitude
AU - Templer, Donald I.
AU - King, Frank L.
AU - Brooner, Robert K.
AU - Corgiat, Mark
PY - 1984/5
Y1 - 1984/5
N2 - Constructed a 26‐item Likert format Body Elimination Attitude Scale with good internal consistency and temporal stability (N = 60). Factor analysis yielded seven factors labeled Fecal Smell, Personal Hygiene, Sight, Dirty Hair, Animal Feces, Mucous‐like Discharge, and Sound. Both the prominence of items that pertained to defecation and the positive association of the Scale with a measure of obsessive personality‐anal character were viewed as consistent with psychoanalytic theory. Correlations with psychometric instruments revealed greater body elimination disgust to be associated with psychopathology. Youth, lesser education, having fewer children, being female, and lesser income also were associated with greater disgust.
AB - Constructed a 26‐item Likert format Body Elimination Attitude Scale with good internal consistency and temporal stability (N = 60). Factor analysis yielded seven factors labeled Fecal Smell, Personal Hygiene, Sight, Dirty Hair, Animal Feces, Mucous‐like Discharge, and Sound. Both the prominence of items that pertained to defecation and the positive association of the Scale with a measure of obsessive personality‐anal character were viewed as consistent with psychoanalytic theory. Correlations with psychometric instruments revealed greater body elimination disgust to be associated with psychopathology. Youth, lesser education, having fewer children, being female, and lesser income also were associated with greater disgust.
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U2 - 10.1002/1097-4679(198405)40:3<754::AID-JCLP2270400321>3.0.CO;2-M
DO - 10.1002/1097-4679(198405)40:3<754::AID-JCLP2270400321>3.0.CO;2-M
M3 - Article
C2 - 6746985
AN - SCOPUS:0021253599
SN - 0021-9762
VL - 40
SP - 754
EP - 759
JO - Journal of Clinical Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology
IS - 3
ER -