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Hence, this study aimed to develop a brief form of the Chinese version of the Odor Awareness Scale(OAS-B) with sufficient psychometric properties.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n<jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>A total of 978 participants from a college were recruited, who were randomly allocated into two groups for item reduction(N\u2009=\u2009492) and scale validation(N\u2009=\u2009486). Confirmatory factor analysis was utilized to remove items identified as information overlaps. After removing overlapping items, the brief scale was validated in the other subgroup for reliability and validity. The criterion-related validity was measured by correlation analysis between OAS-B and the Social Odor Awareness Scale(SOS), the Body Odor Sniffing Questionnaire(BOSQ), and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7).<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Removing 12 overlapping items, OAS-B holds 15 items with three subscales. The model fit indices for the OAS-B were: <jats:inline-formula id=\"pone.0334168.e001\"><jats:alternatives><jats:graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" id=\"pone.0334168.e001g\" mimetype=\"image\" position=\"anchor\" xlink:href=\"info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0334168.e001\" xlink:type=\"simple\"\/><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" display=\"inline\" id=\"equation1\"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>\u03c7<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>2<\/mml:mtext><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:msup><mml:mo>\/<\/mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mi>d<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> = 2.594, RMSEA\u2009=\u20090.057, CFI\u2009=\u20090.938, TLI\u2009=\u20090.925, SRMR\u2009=\u20090.046. The Cronbach\u2019s \u03b1 coefficient for OAS-B was 0. 868. 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