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Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age.
Swami, Viren; Tran, Ulrich S; Stieger, Stefan; Aavik, Toivo; Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour; Adebayo, Sulaiman Olanrewaju; Afhami, Reza; Ahmed, Oli; Aimé, Annie; Akel, Marwan; Halbusi, Hussam Al; Alexias, George; Ali, Khawla F; Alp-Dal, Nursel; Alsalhani, Anas B; Álvares-Solas, Sara; Amaral, Ana Carolina Soares; Andrianto, Sonny; Aspden, Trefor; Argyrides, Marios; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R; Atkin, Stephen; Ayandele, Olusola; Baceviciene, Migle; Bahbouh, Radvan; Ballesio, Andrea; Barron, David; Bellard, Ashleigh; Bender, Sóley Sesselja; Beydag, Kerime Derya; Birovljevic, Gorana; Blackburn, Marie-Ève; Borja-Alvarez, Teresita; Borowiec, Joanna; Bozogánová, Miroslava; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Browning, Matthew H E M; Brytek-Matera, Anna; Burakova, Marina; Çakir-Koçak, Yeliz; Camacho, Pablo; Camilleri, Vittorio Emanuele; Cazzato, Valentina; Cerea, Silvia; Chaiwutikornwanich, Apitchaya; Chaleeraktrakoon, Trawin; Chambers, Tim; Chen, Qing-Wei; Chen, Xin; Chien, Chin-Lung.
Affiliation
  • Swami V; School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: viren.swami@aru.ac.uk.
  • Tran US; Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Stieger S; Department of Psychology and Psychodynamics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems an der Donau, Austria.
  • Aavik T; Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
  • Ranjbar HA; Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkiye.
  • Adebayo SO; Department of Psychology and Behavioural Studies, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
  • Afhami R; Department of Art Studies, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Ahmed O; Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Chattogram, Bangladesh.
  • Aimé A; Department of Psychoeducation and Psychology, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Saint-Jérôme, Canada.
  • Akel M; INSPECT-LB: National Institute of Public Health, Clinical Epidemiology, and Toxicology, Beirut, Lebanon; School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Halbusi HA; Department of Management, Ahmed Bin Mohammad Military College, Doha, Qatar.
  • Alexias G; Faculty of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
  • Ali KF; Royal College of Surgeons Ireland-Bahrain, Adliya, Bahrain.
  • Alp-Dal N; Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Munzur University, Tunceli, Turkiya.
  • Alsalhani AB; Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Vision College of Dentistry and Nursing, Vision Colleges, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • Álvares-Solas S; Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Muyuna, Ecuador.
  • Amaral ACS; Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais, Barbacena, Brazil.
  • Andrianto S; Department of Psychology, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
  • Aspden T; Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, United Kingdom.
  • Argyrides M; Department of Psychology, Neapolis University Pafos, Paphos, Cyprus.
  • Aruta JJBR; Department of Psychology, De La Salle University, Phillippines.
  • Atkin S; Royal College of Surgeons Ireland-Bahrain, Adliya, Bahrain.
  • Ayandele O; Department of General Studies, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
  • Baceviciene M; Health Research and Innovation Science Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
  • Bahbouh R; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.
  • Ballesio A; Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
  • Barron D; School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
  • Bellard A; School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Bender SS; Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • Beydag KD; Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Gedik University, Istanbul, Turkiye.
  • Birovljevic G; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
  • Blackburn MÈ; ÉCOBES-Research and Transfer, Cégep de Jonquière, Québec, Canada.
  • Borja-Alvarez T; Colegio de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
  • Borowiec J; Department of Physical Education and Lifelong Sports, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poznan, Poland.
  • Bozogánová M; Institute of Social Sciences of the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Kosice, Slovakia; Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Institute of Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Psychology, University of Presov, Presov, Slovakia.
  • Bratland-Sanda S; Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø, Telemark, Norway.
  • Browning MHEM; Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Clemson University, Clemson, United States of America.
  • Brytek-Matera A; Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Burakova M; Laboratory of Social Psychology, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France.
  • Çakir-Koçak Y; Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bartin University, Bartin, Turkiye.
  • Camacho P; CentroSan Isidoro University Center, Seville, Spain.
  • Camilleri VE; Department of Psychology, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
  • Cazzato V; School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Cerea S; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
  • Chaiwutikornwanich A; Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Chaleeraktrakoon T; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand.
  • Chambers T; School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
  • Chen QW; Lab of Light and Physio-Psychological Health, National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectrics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South Ch
  • Chen X; Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, New York, United States of America.
  • Chien CL; Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Body Image ; 46: 449-466, 2023 Sep.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37582318
ABSTRACT
The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - with data collected between 2020 and 2022 - to assess measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated that full scalar invariance was upheld across all nations, languages, gender identities, and age groups, suggesting that the unidimensional BAS-2 model has widespread applicability. There were large differences across nations and languages in latent body appreciation, while differences across gender identities and age groups were negligible-to-small. Additionally, greater body appreciation was significantly associated with higher life satisfaction, being single (versus being married or in a committed relationship), and greater rurality (versus urbanicity). Across a subset of nations where nation-level data were available, greater body appreciation was also significantly associated with greater cultural distance from the United States and greater relative income inequality. These findings suggest that the BAS-2 likely captures a near-universal conceptualisation of the body appreciation construct, which should facilitate further cross-cultural research.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Body Image / Gender Identity Type of study: Prognostic_studies Aspects: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: Body Image Journal subject: PSICOLOGIA Year: 2023 Document type: Article
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Body Image / Gender Identity Type of study: Prognostic_studies Aspects: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: Body Image Journal subject: PSICOLOGIA Year: 2023 Document type: Article