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FieldGender StudiesGender Studies
FamilyProcess / pipelineProcess / pipeline
Year of origin19961991
OriginatorNita Mary McKinley and Janet Shibley HydeAdena Bargad and Janet Shibley Hyde
TypeSelf-report multidimensional scaleSelf-report developmental stage scale
Seminal sourceMcKinley, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (1996). The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale: Development and validation. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 20(2), 181–215. DOI ↗Bargad, A., & Hyde, J. S. (1991). Women's studies: A study of feminist identity development in women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 15(2), 181–201. DOI ↗
AliasesOBCS, Objectified Body ConsciousnessFIDS, Feminist Identity Scale
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SummaryThe Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS), developed by Nita McKinley and Janet Hyde in 1996, is a 24-item self-report instrument that measures the extent to which a person experiences their body as an object to be watched and evaluated. It comprises three 8-item subscales — body surveillance, body shame, and appearance control beliefs — grounded in the idea that women in particular internalise an observer's perspective on their own bodies.The Feminist Identity Development Scale (FIDS), developed by Adena Bargad and Janet Hyde in 1991, is a 39-item self-report instrument that operationalises Downing and Roush's (1985) five-stage model of how women develop a feminist identity. Its five subscales correspond to the stages of passive acceptance, revelation, embeddedness-emanation, synthesis, and active commitment, capturing where a woman stands in the process of recognising and responding to sexism.
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