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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.

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BORIS DOI
10.48350/185493
Date of Publication
September 2023
Publication Type
Article
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Author
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
Holenweger, Geraldineorcid-logo
Institut für Marketing und Unternehmensführung (IMU) - Abteilung Consumer Behavior
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
Institut für Marketing und Unternehmensführung (IMU) - Abteilung Consumer Behavior
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
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600 - Technology::650...

Series
Body image
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
1740-1445
Publisher
Elsevier
Language
English
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010
PubMed ID
37582318
Uncontrolled Keywords

Body appreciation Bod...

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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https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/169304
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