Pietrabissa, Giada, Gullo, Salvatore, Aimé, Annie, Mellor, David, McCabe, Marita, Alcaraz-Ibánez, Manuel, Begin, Catherine, Blackburn, Marie-Eve, Caltabiano, Marie, Sicilia, Alvaro, Castelnuovo, Gianluca, Dion, Jacinthe, Granero-Gallegos, Antonio, Hayami-Chisuwa, Naomi, He, Qiqiang, Lo Coco, Gianluca, Maïano, Christophe, Markey, Charlotte, Probst, Michel, Rodgers, Rachel F., Strodl, Esben, Manzoni, Gian Mauro, and Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew (2020) Measuring perfectionism,impulsivity, self-esteem and social anxiety: cross-national study in emerging adults from eight countries. Body Image, 35. pp. 265-278.

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Abstract

This study assessed the measurement invariance of selected self-report measures of perfectionism,impulsivity, self-esteem and social anxiety in samples of emerging adults from eight different countries. Participants (N = 6272) completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS), the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale, the 5-item Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (5-item RSES) and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS-6). Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was run to examine cross-measure equivalence. Evidence for structural invariance was found for all questionnaires, while weak invariance was supported only for the 5-item RSES and the SIAS-6, and a partial weak invariance was found for the MPS and the UPPS-P. No measure achieved strong invariance. Strict invariance was achieved for the5-item RSES, whereas only a partial strict invariance was supported for the MPS, UPPS-P and SIAS-6.These results suggest that perfectionism, impulsivity, self-esteem, and social anxiety are subjected to linguistic/cultural influence as well as to the effects of socio-demographic variables and can be evaluated by using the selected measures in eight different countries worldwide - but results should be interpreted with caution.

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