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by Isabella F. Dachs and Rhett Diessner—Lewis-Clark State College
Category: Cross-Cultural, Psychometrics
German Version of the Engagement With Beauty Scale
The Engagement with Beauty Scale (EBS) was designed using the philosophical works of Kant (1790/1987), Hegel (c. 1835/1993), and Aquinas (c. 1260/1947), as well as the psychological work of Haidt and Kilter (2004). The scale has construct, concurrent, and predictive validity as well as internal consistency, with a Cronbach’s alpha of .90 for total score with an American sample (Diessner, Solom, Frost, Parsons, & Davidson, 2008). In the study reported here, the EBS was translated into German and administered to a sample of Germans living in southern Germany, revealing a Cronbach’s alpha of .94 for total score (validity was not formally assessed). Discussion centers on comparing the German sample’s scores on the natural beauty, artistic beauty, and moral beauty subscales of the EBS with the American sample’s scores.