Body shame is a common experience among women yet a challenging phenomenon to operationalize, and measures of body shame often fail to capture its embodied aspects. In this article, we examined the structural and psychometric properties of an existing measure of body shame that was developed by Fredrickson et al. (1998) to assess the motivational and behavioral components of feeling body shame. Across three studies, women participants completed the Phenomenological Body Shame Scale (PBSS) and measures of theoretically related constructs in counterbalanced order via online survey platforms. The results demonstrate evidence of construct validity for an abbreviated, 8-item measure of phenomenological body shame (PBSS-R). In Study 1 (n = 341 community women), we evaluated and confirmed the scale’s structural validity as a unidimensional measure. In Study 2 (n = 204 college women), we demonstrated positive associations between the PBSS-R and negative body image attitudes and behaviors, and negative associations with self-compassion, supporting the scale’s external validity. In Study 3 (n = 235 community women), the PBSS-R explained variance in intuitive eating and happiness above theoretically related measures of self-objectification and body shame, supporting the scale’s incremental validity. We recommend use of this abbreviated measure to assess the more embodied and less evaluative features of body shame in women.

身体羞耻感是女性的普遍经历，但在操作上却是一个具有挑战性的现象，身体羞耻感的衡量标准往往无法捕捉到其具体化的方面。在本文中，我们研究了 Fredrickson 等人开发的现有身体羞耻度测量的结构和心理测量特性。(1998) 评估感觉身体羞耻的动机和行为成分。在三项研究中，女性参与者通过在线调查平台以平衡顺序完成了现象学身体羞耻量表 (PBSS) 和理论相关结构的测量。结果证明了一种简化的 8 项现象学身体羞耻量度 (PBSS-R) 的结构有效性证据。在研究 1 ( n= 341 名社区女性），我们评估并确认了该量表的结构效度作为一维衡量指标。在研究 2（n = 204 名大学女性）中，我们证明了 PBSS-R 与负面身体形象态度和行为之间存在正相关，以及与自我同情心之间存在负相关，支持该量表的外部效度。在研究 3（n = 235 名社区女性）中，PBSS-R 解释了直觉饮食和幸福感的差异，高于理论相关的自我客观化和身体羞耻感，支持量表的增量有效性。我们建议使用这种简化的衡量标准来评估女性身体羞耻感的更多体现和更少的评价特征。