Body Image Disturbance Self-Assessment Scale – Chinese Version

Description

Body image, also known as body self-image, self-image, or body silhouette, refers to individuals’ psychological perception of their own bodies. It is a summation of how one feels about their body’s posture and sensations. In simple terms, it is an individual’s subjective evaluation of their body in terms of beauty, strength, etc. Based on psychological development and resulting outcomes, body image can be classified into positive body image and negative body image. From the perspective of self-concept, the former is a body image that facilitates self-affirmation and self-acceptance, hence it can also be referred to as affirmative body image; the latter is a body image that hinders self-affirmation and self-acceptance. There are numerous terms to express negative body image, which can be categorized into body image distress and pathological body image based on their impact on individuals. Body image distress mainly refers to body image contempt, while pathological body image relates to certain mental disorders associated with body image, including neuroses and psychoses, such as body image distortion and body image disorder.

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Purpose

The purpose of this document is to explore the concepts of body image, particularly focusing on the distinctions between positive and negative body images, their psychological impacts, and the related conditions such as body image distortion and body image disorder (BDD).

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Administration Method and Scoring

SSBI is compiled by Lu Longguang and others from Nanjing Medical University and is the only self-assessment scale for body image dysfunction (BDD) currently available domestically. The scale consists of 23 assessment items across 8 dimensions, assessing the testee’s body image status.

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Factors and Subscales

The 23 items of SSBI evaluate the testee’s body image status from the following 8 aspects (dimensions):
1. 躯体缺陷感 (Sensation of Physical Defects)
2. 体貌认知度 (Cognition of Physical Appearance)
3. 体貌关注度 (Attention to Physical Appearance)
4. 情绪受损度 (Emotional Impairment)
5. 社会交往度 (Social Interaction)
6. 体貌改变度 (Degree of Physical Changes)
7. 他人评价度 (Others’ Evaluation)
8. 体障诱因度 (Causes of Body Dysfunction)

Keywords

Body image, self-image, body image disorder, body image distortion, body image contempt, psychological assessment, self-affirmation.

Items in Chinese

1. 我感到自己的体貌某部位变丑了
2. 我感到自身某个部位有了缺陷
3. 我认为体貌是我人生的头等大事
4. 我每天都想着身上缺陷部位
5. 体貌改变使我日夜难以平静
6. 我因体貌改变而痛苦
7. 因体貌变化使我失去对其他事物的兴趣
8. 因体貌变化影响了我的社会功能
9. 我每天注意自身某部位的变化
10. 我想尽一切努力去改变体貌缺陷
11. 我常到矫形医院希望得到矫正
12. 我对自身缺陷经常进行自我矫正
13. 平时别人评价我的体貌
14. 我很关注别人对我体貌缺陷的议论
15. 我因体貌改变回避与他人交往
16. 我感到与别人交往使他人不舒服或讨厌
17. 我因体貌改变脾气完全变了
18. 我因自身某部位改变而积极求治
19. 我感到体貌改变是人生不祥之兆
20. 体貌改变使我猜疑心增强
21. 最初体貌改变的诱因还在
22. 体貌改变在他人劝说下可暂时缓解
23. 我对我所接受的治疗都不满意

Items in English

1. I feel that a certain part of my appearance has become ugly.
2. I feel that there is a defect in a certain part of my body.
3. I believe that physical appearance is the most important aspect of my life.
4. I think about the parts of my body that have defects every day.
5. Changes in my appearance make it difficult for me to be at peace day and night.
6. I suffer because of changes in my appearance.
7. Due to changes in my appearance, I have lost interest in other things.
8. Changes in my appearance have affected my social functions.
9. I pay attention to the changes in a certain part of my body every day.
10. I make every effort to change the defects in my appearance.
11. I often go to correctional hospitals hoping to obtain correction.
12. I frequently make self-corrections on my own defects.
13. Others often evaluate my appearance.
14. I pay a lot of attention to what others say about my appearance defects.
15. I avoid interactions with others due to changes in my appearance.
16. I feel that socializing with others makes them uncomfortable or dislike me.
17. My temper has completely changed due to changes in my appearance.
18. I actively seek treatment due to changes in a certain part of my body.
19. I feel that changes in my appearance are an ominous sign in life.
20. Changes in my appearance have increased my suspicion.
21. The initial cause of the changes in my appearance is still present.
22. Changes in my appearance can be temporarily relieved under the persuasion of others.
23. I am dissatisfied with all the treatments I have received.

References

刘晨. 对体像障碍受术者整形美容外科手术适应证与禁忌证的探讨[D].中国协和医科大学,2008.