Testing competing factor models underlying the Private Self-Consciousness scale with Hong Kong Chinese adolescents

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Joseph Keung Fai Wu
David Watkins
Cite this article:  Keung Fai Wu, J., & Watkins, D. (2006). Testing competing factor models underlying the Private Self-Consciousness scale with Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 34(10), 1245-1258.


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In this study we evaluated competing factor models underlying the Private Self-Consciousness scale (Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) with a large sample of Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Reliability analysis and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis did not lend empirical support to the three split-factor models proposed in previous research (Anderson, Bohon, & Berrigan, 1996; Burnkrant & Page, 1984; Martin & Debus, 1999). It was recommended that the original unitary model proposed by Fenigstein et al. should be retained in interpreting scores made on this scale, at least for Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Possible influences of age and culture on the factor structure of the scale were also discussed.

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