Body-Efficacy Expectation: Assessment of Beliefs concerning Bodily Coping Capabilities with a Five-Item Scale

Table 2

Descriptive statistics, internal consistencies, and intercorrelation of the scales.

	BEE	GSE	IHLOC	SoH	BC/BF	PF	General Health	Present Health
Intercorrelation of the scales
BEE: body-efficacy expectation	—
GSE: general self-efficacy	0.35	—
IHLOC: internal health locus of control	0.30	0.23	—
SoH: state of health	0.47	0.43	0.29	—
BC/BF: body care and external appearance/body functioning	0.09	0.21	0.31	0.27	—
PF: physical fitness	0.30	0.34	0.23	0.68	0.42	—
General health	0.47	0.31	0.28	0.65	0.23	0.45	—
Present health	−0.04	−0.01	0.00	−0.03	−0.03	−0.04	−0.03	—
Mean (M)	2.83	2.97	29.34	25.70	35.70	44.04	3.35	3.19
Standard Deviation (SD)	0.54	0.43	4.93	5.30	5.18	8.59	0.81	0.75
Cronbach’s α	0.77	0.88	0.84	0.84	0.73	0.87