Measuring body image during pregnancy: psychometric properties and validity of a German translation of the Body Image in Pregnancy Scale (BIPS-G)

Table 1 Item characteristics of the BIPS German version (BIPS-G)

Item #	Range	Mean	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	Item difficulty p_i (%)
1	1–5	2.41	1.23	0.45	−1.03	35.14
2	1–5	2.51	1.26	0.33	−1.20	37.71
3	1–5	2.55	1.29	0.25	−1.30	38.66
4	1–5	2.31	1.40	0.62	−1.09	32.82
5	1–5	1.66	1.04	1.48	1.09	16.58
6	1–5	2.49	1.38	0.46	−1.12	37.20
7*	1–5	2.91	1.15	0.09	−0.87	47.68
8*	1–5	2.77	1.16	0.32	−0.72	44.33
9^a	1–5	2.35	1.32	0.54	−1.06	33.76
10*	1–5	2.37	0.99	0.65	0.06	34.19
11*	1–5	2.20	0.90	0.78	0.33	29.98
12*	1–5	2.17	0.91	0.62	0.08	29.21
13*	1–5	2.91	1.14	0.08	−0.70	47.68
14*	1–5	2.50	1.04	0.41	−0.43	37.46
15	1–5	2.77	1.28	0.15	−1.26	44.33
16	1–5	2.90	1.42	0.05	− 1.45	47.42
17	1–5	3.13	1.33	−0.22	−1.29	53.18
18	1–5	3.60	1.31	−0.68	−0.81	65.12
19	1–5	2.86	1.20	−0.13	−1.02	46.56
20	1–5	3.01	1.32	−0.09	−1.21	50.26
21	1–5	3.21	1.22	−.0.40	−0.95	55.15
22	1–5	2.34	1.37	0.64	−0.96	33.51
23	1–5	1.96	1.16	1.15	0.38	24.05
24	1–5	2.34	1.30	0.65	−0.74	33.51
25	1–5	2.03	1.16	0.84	−0.27	25.86
26^a	1–5	2.28	1.17	0.56	−0.72	32.04
27	1–5	2.08	1.09	0.56	−0.65	26.98
28	1–5	2.10	1.21	0.75	−0.51	27.41
29	1–5	2.38	1.25	0.48	−0.91	34.45
30	1–5	1.92	1.15	0.97	−0.15	23.02
31	1–5	2.10	1.39	0.84	−0.86	27.49
32	1–5	1.30	0.83	3.28	10.62	7.47
33^a	1–5	1.25	0.73	3.21	10.33	6.36
34^a	1–5	1.51	0.84	1.62	2.01	12.71
35	1–5	2.17	1.28	0.74	−0.61	29.30
36	1–5	2.20	1.25	0.64	−0.76	29.98

Note. ^aitem later omitted from final analysis; *reverse-coded items; higher values indicate higher body image concerns

ISSN: 1471-2393