Assessment of body elimination attitude

Donald I. Templer; Frank L. King; Robert K. Brooner; Mark Corgiat

doi:10.1002/1097-4679(198405)40:3<754::AID-JCLP2270400321>3.0.CO;2-M

Assessment of body elimination attitude

Donald I. Templer, Frank L. King, Robert K. Brooner, Mark Corgiat

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	754-759
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Clinical Psychology
Volume	40
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(198405)40:3<754::AID-JCLP2270400321>3.0.CO;2-M
State	Published - May 1984
Externally published	Yes

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