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Portuguese version of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised: Preliminary data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

J. Ferreira ,
S. Soares ,
P. Bem-Haja ,
L. Alho ,
M. Rocha ,
N. Madeira  and
C. Silva
J. Ferreira
Affiliation:
Center for Health Technology and Services Research CINTESIS-UA, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences IBILI, Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal
S. Soares
Affiliation:
Center for Health Technology and Services Research CINTESIS-UA, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Solna, Sweden
P. Bem-Haja
Affiliation:
Center for Health Technology and Services Research CINTESIS-UA, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences IBILI, Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal
L. Alho
Affiliation:
Center for Health Technology and Services Research CINTESIS-UA, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences IBILI, Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal
M. Rocha
Affiliation:
Center for Health Technology and Services Research CINTESIS-UA, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
N. Madeira*
Affiliation:
Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Psychiatry, Coimbra, Portugal Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Psychological Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal
C. Silva
Affiliation:
Center for Health Technology and Services Research CINTESIS-UA, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences IBILI, Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Disgust propensity (DP) and disgust sensitivity (DS) contribute to individual differences in the experience of disgust. Studies have shown that DP and DS are predictive of some anxiety (e.g., spider phobia and blood-injection-injury phobia) and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.

Aim

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a Portuguese version of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised (DPSS-R; van Overveld= et al., 2006) for use in Portuguese-speaking populations.

Method

Two hundred and six participants (162 females), with ages between 18 and 47 (M = 25.92; SD = 8.75), filled in the DPSS-R, which was first translated and adapted into Portuguese language by individuals highly proficient in English and then back-translated by a bilingual with no prior knowledge of the scale. Finally, the DPSS-R was subjected to a think-aloud procedure.

Results

The results showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alfa = .833) for a DPSS-R. The two subscales displayed an adequate internal consistency (DPCronbach's alfa = .776; DSCronbach's alfa = .790). Test-retest analysis documented good intraclass correlation coefficient for the two subscales (ICCPropensity = .889; ICC Sensitivity = .900). We also confirmed the bifactorial structure using a confirmatory factor analysis, since we obtained appropriate values in all goodness of fit indices (χ2df = 1,906; CFI = .94; PCFI = .736; GFI = .93; PGFI = .607; RMSEA = .067).

Conclusion

DPSS-R obtained good psychometric properties and may therefore be proposed as a valid instrument to assess DS and DP in the Portuguese population. This instrument may provide an important contribute to study the development and maintenance of psychopathology associated with disgust.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EW432
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. s223 - s224
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2014
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