Article ; Online: Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age.
2023 Volume 46, Page(s) 449–466
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 ... ...
| 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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| MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Body Image/psychology ; Gender Identity ; Psychometrics ; Reproducibility of Results ; Factor Analysis, Statistical ; Language ; Surveys and Questionnaires |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2023-08-13 |
| Publishing country | Netherlands |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2211449-X |
| ISSN | 1873-6807 ; 1740-1445 |
| ISSN (online) | 1873-6807 |
| ISSN | 1740-1445 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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