Physical Appearance-Related

Teasing Scale (PARTS)

1. When you were a child‚ did you feel that your peers were staring at
because you were overweight?

2. When you were a child‚ did you ever feel like people were making
fun of you because of your weight?

3. Were you ridiculed as a child about being overweight?

4. When you were a child‚ did people make jokes about you being
too big?

5. When you were a child‚ were you laughed at for trying out for
sports because you were too heavy?

6. Did your brother(s) or other male relatives call you names like
“fatso” when they got angry at you?

7. Did your father ever make jokes that referred to your weight?

8. Did other kids call you derogatory names that related to your size
or weight?

9. Did you ever feel like people were pointing at you because of your
size or weight?

10. Were you the brunt of family jokes because of your weight?

11. Did people point you out of a crowd because of your weight?

12. Did you ever hear your classmate snicker when you walked into
the classroom alone?
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 13. When you were growing up‚ did people say you dressed funny?

14. Did people say you had funny teeth?

15. Did kids call you funny looking?

16. Did other kids tease you about wearing clothes that didn’t match
or were out of style?

17. Did other kids ever make jokes about your hair?

18. When you were a child were you scoffed at for looking like a
weakling?

This instrument can be found on pages 120-121 of The Effects of

Ambiguous Appearance-related Feedback on Body Image‚ Mood
States‚ and Intentions to Use Body Changes Strategies in College
Women. Available online
at: http://usf.sobek.ufl.edu/content/SF/S0/02/68/04/00001/E14-
SFE0002487.pdf

1=Never‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5=Frequently

Thompson‚ J. K.‚ Fabian‚ L. J.‚ Moulton‚ D. O.‚

Dunn‚ M. E.‚ & Altabe‚ M. N.
(1991).Development and Validation of the
Physical Appearance Related Teasing
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 Scale.Journal of Personality Assessment‚
56(3)‚ 513-521.

Herbozo‚ Sylvia.‚ (2007). The Effects of

Ambiguous Appearance-related Feedback on
Body Image‚ Mood States‚ and Intentions to
Use Body Changes Strategies in College
Women. University of South Florida‚ College
of Arts and Sciences‚ Department of
Psychology.
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