Approbation of the Russian-language version of the Engagement with beauty Scale

Abstract

The results of approbation of the Russian-language version of questionnaire «Engagement with beauty scale» (Diessner R., Solom R. D., Frost N. K., Parsons L., Davidson J.) are presented. Engagement with beauty is defined as the degree of involvement in interaction with the beauty of nature, art and the moral beauty of a person. The basic philosophical idea on which American researchers relied on the creation of a technique is the unity of the three components of being - truth, beauty and good. Checking the internal structure of the questionnaire “Susceptibility to Beauty” by means of confirmatory factor analysis showed that it has a three-factor structure corresponding to the original author's model. The conducted psychometric analysis testifies that this questionnaire has good internal consistency, retest reliability, convergent, discriminant and criterial validity. Additional interesting results were obtained on the relationship between personal factors and sensitivity to beauty in general, and, in particular, to the beauty of nature, art and the moral beauty of a person. The results make it possible to consider the Russian-language version of the «Engagement with beauty scale» as a reliable and valid instrument for assessment of engagement with beauty.