Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age.
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Date of Publication
September 2023
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Article
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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 | |
Beydağ, Kerime Derya | |
Birovljević, Gorana | |
Blackburn, Marie-Ève | |
Borja-Alvarez, Teresita | |
Borowiec, Joanna | |
Bozogáňová, Miroslava | |
Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid | |
Browning, Matthew H E M | |
Brytek-Matera, Anna | |
Burakova, Marina | |
Çakır-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 | |
Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit | |
Choompunuch, Bovornpot | |
Compte, Emilio J | |
Corrigan, Jennifer | |
Cosmas, Getrude | |
Cowden, Richard G | |
Czepczor-Bernat, Kamila | |
Czub, Marcin | |
da Silva, Wanderson Roberto | |
Dadfar, Mahboubeh | |
Dalley, Simon E | |
Dany, Lionel | |
Datu, Jesus Alfonso D | |
Berbert de Carvalho, Pedro Henrique | |
Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda | |
De Jesus, Avila Odia S | |
Debbabi, Sonia Harzallah | |
Dhakal, Sandesh | |
Di Bernardo, Francesca | |
Dimitrova, Donka D | |
Dion, Jacinthe | |
Dixson, Barnaby | |
Donofrio, Stacey M | |
Drysch, Marius | |
Du, Hongfei | |
Dzhambov, Angel M | |
El-Jor, Claire | |
Enea, Violeta | |
Eskin, Mehmet | |
Farbod, Farinaz | |
Farrugia, Lorleen | |
Fian, Leonie | |
Fisher, Maryanne L | |
Folwarczny, Michał | |
Frederick, David A | |
Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew | |
Furnham, Adrian | |
García, Antonio Alías | |
Geller, Shulamit | |
Ghisi, Marta | |
Ghorbani, Alireza | |
Martinez, Maria Angeles Gomez | |
Gradidge, Sarah | |
Graf, Sylvie | |
Grano, Caterina | |
Gyene, Gyöngyvér | |
Hallit, Souheil | |
Hamdan, Motasem | |
Handelzalts, Jonathan E | |
Hanel, Paul H P | |
Hawks, Steven R | |
Hekmati, Issa | |
Helmy, Mai | |
Hill, Tetiana | |
Hina, Farah | |
Hřebíčková, Martina | |
Ijabadeniyi, Olasupo Augustine | |
Imam, Asma | |
İnce, Başak | |
Irrazabal, Natalia | |
Jankauskiene, Rasa | |
Jiang, Ding-Yu | |
Jiménez-Borja, Micaela | |
Jiménez-Borja, Verónica | |
Johnson, Evan M | |
Jovanović, Veljko | |
Jović, Marija | |
Jović, Marko | |
Junqueira, Alessandra Costa Pereira | |
Kahle, Lisa-Marie | |
Kantanista, Adam | |
Karakiraz, Ahmet | |
Karkin, Ayşe Nur | |
Kasten, Erich | |
Khatib, Salam | |
Khieowan, Nuannut | |
Kimong, Patricia Joseph | |
Kiropoulos, Litza | |
Knittel, Joshua John | |
Kohli, Neena | |
Koprivnik, Mirjam | |
Kospakov, Aituar | |
Król-Zielińska, Magdalena | |
Krug, Isabel | |
Kuan, Garry | |
Kueh, Yee Cheng | |
Kujan, Omar | |
Kukić, Miljana | |
Kumar, Sanjay | |
Kumar, Vipul | |
Lamba, Nishtha | |
Lauri, Mary Anne | |
Laus, Maria Fernanda | |
LeBlanc, Liza April | |
Lee, Hyejoo J | |
Lipowska, Małgorzata | |
Lipowski, Mariusz | |
Lombardo, Caterina | |
Lukács, Andrea | |
Maïano, Christophe | |
Malik, Sadia | |
Manjary, Mandar | |
Baldó, Lidia Márquez | |
Martinez-Banfi, Martha | |
Massar, Karlijn | |
Matera, Camila | |
McAnirlin, Olivia | |
Mebarak, Moisés Roberto | |
Mechri, Anwar | |
Meireles, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras | |
Mesko, Norbert | |
Mills, Jacqueline | |
Miyairi, Maya | |
Modi, Ritu | |
Modrzejewska, Adriana | |
Modrzejewska, Justyna | |
Mulgrew, Kate E | |
Myers, Taryn A | |
Namatame, Hikari | |
Nassani, Mohammad Zakaria | |
Nerini, Amanda | |
Neto, Félix | |
Neto, Joana | |
Neves, Angela Noguiera | |
Ng, Siu-Kuen | |
Nithiya, Devi | |
O, Jiaqing | |
Obeid, Sahar | |
Oda-Montecinos, Camila | |
Olapegba, Peter Olamakinde | |
Olonisakin, Tosin Tunrayo | |
Omar, Salma Samir | |
Örlygsdóttir, Brynja | |
Özsoy, Emrah | |
Otterbring, Tobias | |
Pahl, Sabine | |
Panasiti, Maria Serena | |
Park, Yonguk | |
Patwary, Muhammad Mainuddin | |
Pethö, Tatiana | |
Petrova, Nadezhda | |
Pietschnig, Jakob | |
Pourmahmoud, Sadaf | |
Prabhu, Vishnunarayan Girishan | |
Poštuvan, Vita | |
Prokop, Pavol | |
Ramseyer Winter, Virginia L | |
Razmus, Magdalena | |
Ru, Taotao | |
Rupar, Mirjana | |
Sahlan, Reza N | |
Hassan, Mohammad Salah | |
Šalov, Anđela | |
Sapkota, Saphal | |
Sarfo, Jacob Owusu | |
Sawamiya, Yoko | |
Schaefer, Katrin | |
Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Michael | |
Seekis, Veya | |
Selvi, Kerim | |
Sharifi, Mehdi | |
Shrivastava, Anita | |
Siddique, Rumana Ferdousi | |
Sigurdsson, Valdimar | |
Silkane, Vineta | |
Šimunić, Ana | |
Singh, Govind | |
Slezáčková, Alena | |
Sundgot-Borgen, Christine | |
Ten Hoor, Gill | |
Tevichapong, Passagorn | |
Tipandjan, Arun | |
Todd, Jennifer | |
Togas, Constantinos | |
Tonini, Fernando | |
Tovar-Castro, Juan Camilo | |
Trangsrud, Lise Katrine Jepsen | |
Tripathi, Pankaj | |
Tudorel, Otilia | |
Tylka, Tracy L | |
Uyzbayeva, Anar | |
Vally, Zahir | |
Vanags, Edmunds | |
Vega, Luis Diego | |
Vicente-Arruebarrena, Aitor | |
Vidal-Mollón, Jose | |
Vilar, Roosevelt | |
Villegas, Hyxia | |
Vintilă, Mona | |
Wallner, Christoph | |
White, Mathew P | |
Whitebridge, Simon | |
Windhager, Sonja | |
Wong, Kah Yan | |
Yau, Eric Kenson | |
Yamamiya, Yuko | |
Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan | |
Zanetti, Marcelo Callegari | |
Zawisza, Magdalena | |
Zeeni, Nadine | |
Zvaríková, Martina | |
Voracek, Martin |
Subject(s)
Series
Body image
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
1740-1445
Publisher
Elsevier
Language
English
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PubMed ID
37582318
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Description
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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