Assessment of the Proximity of Clothing to Self scale for adolescents in the Italian context

This paper presents the results of one of the first Italian works in the field of social psychology of dress. The work aims at investigating the psychometric properties of the Proximity of Clothing to Self (PCS) scale in the Italian context and at exploring the relationships of its subscales with gender, socioeconomic status, and average spending on clothing. The PCS scale was administered to a sample of 444 individuals attending the high school. The results showed that the Italian version of the PCS scale has a 4-factor 20-item structure. No significant differences emerged between the socioeconomic status, whereas gender was found to moderate the relationships between the score at the PCS scale and the average spending on clothing. Discussion of findings and recommendations for future research are presented.