Bunkyo University, Faculty of Human Science
Bunkyo University, graduate(Faculty of Human Science, school subject of clinical psychology)
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The current article describes the psychometric qualities of an Awareness of Out-of-tune Singing Scale, a brief 25-item self-completed questionnaire that asks about one’s awareness of out-of-tune singing. A sample of normal undergraduate students (n=321) completed the Awareness of Out-of-tune Singing Scale, a self-consciousness scale (Sugawara, 1984), a self-esteem scale (Yamamoto, Matsui, & Yamanari, 1982), a self-disgust scale (Mizuma, 1996), and the Lenox & Wolf Revised Self-monitoring Scale (Fujioka & Takahashi, 2008). Factor analysis and reliability analysis indicated that the Awareness of Out-of-tune Singing Scale had a simple 3-factor structure and that it had a high level of reliability (α=0.82-0.92). Furthermore, the Awareness of Out-of-tune Singing Scale was substantially correlated with the self-consciousness scale, the self-esteem scale, the self-disgust scale, and the Lenox & Wolf Revised Self-monitoring Scale, thus indicating the validity of the Awareness of Out-of-tune Singing Scale.