TY - JOUR
T1 - Body appreciation around the world
T2 - Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age
AU - Swami, Viren
AU - Tran, Ulrich S
AU - Stieger, Stefan
AU - Aavik, Toivo
AU - Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour
AU - Adebayo, Sulaiman Olanrewaju
AU - Afhami, Reza
AU - Ahmed, Oli
AU - Aimé, Annie
AU - Akel, Marwan
AU - Halbusi, Hussam Al
AU - Alexias, George
AU - Ali, Khawla F
AU - Alp-Dal, Nursel
AU - Alsalhani, Anas B
AU - Álvares-Solas, Sara
AU - Amaral, Ana Carolina Soares
AU - Andrianto, Sonny
AU - Aspden, Trefor
AU - Argyrides, Marios
AU - Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R
AU - Atkin, Stephen
AU - Ayandele, Olusola
AU - Baceviciene, Migle
AU - Bahbouh, Radvan
AU - Ballesio, Andrea
AU - Barron, David
AU - Bellard, Ashleigh
AU - Bender, Sóley Sesselja
AU - Beydag, Kerime Derya
AU - Birovljevic, Gorana
AU - Blackburn, Marie-Ève
AU - Borja-Alvarez, Teresita
AU - Borowiec, Joanna
AU - Bozogánová, Miroslava
AU - Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid
AU - Browning, Matthew H E M
AU - Brytek-Matera, Anna
AU - Burakova, Marina
AU - Çakir-Koçak, Yeliz
AU - Camacho, Pablo
AU - Camilleri, Vittorio Emanuele
AU - Cazzato, Valentina
AU - Cerea, Silvia
AU - Chaiwutikornwanich, Apitchaya
AU - Chaleeraktrakoon, Trawin
AU - Chambers, Tim
AU - Chen, Qing-Wei
AU - Chen, Xin
AU - Chien, Chin-Lung
AU - Massar, Karlijn
AU - ten Hoor, Gill A.
AU - Et al.
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Body appreciation
KW - Body appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2)
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Measurement invariance
KW - Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA)
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Structural analysis
U2 - 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010
DO - 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010
M3 - Article
SN - 1873-6807
VL - 46
SP - 449
EP - 466
JO - Body Image
JF - Body Image
ER -