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, Ulrich S TRAN, Stefan STIEGER, Toivo AAVIK, Hamed Abdollahpour RANJBAR et. al.
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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SWAMI, Viren, Ulrich S TRAN, Stefan STIEGER, Toivo AAVIK, Hamed Abdollahpour RANJBAR, Sulaiman Olanrewaju ADEBAYO, Reza AFHAMI, Oli AHMED, Annie AIMÉ, Marwan AKEL, Hussam Al HALBUSI, George ALEXIAS, Khawla F ALI, Nursel ALP-DAL, Anas B ALSALHANI, Sara ÁLVARES-SOLAS, Ana Carolina Soares AMARAL, Sonny ANDRIANTO, Trefor ASPDEN, Marios ARGYRIDES, John Jamir Benzon R ARUTA, Stephen ATKIN, Olusola AYANDELE, Migle BACEVICIENE, Radvan BAHBOUH, Andrea BALLESIO, David BARRON, Ashleigh BELLARD, Sóley Sesselja BENDER, Kerime Derya BEYDAĞ, Gorana BIROVLJEVIĆ, Blackburn MARIE-ÈVE, Teresita BORJA-ALVAREZ, Joanna BOROWIEC, Miroslava BOZOGÁŇOVÁ, Solfrid BRATLAND-SANDA, Matthew H E M BROWNING, Anna BRYTEK-MATERA, Marina BURAKOVA, Yeliz ÇAKIR-KOÇAK, Pablo CAMACHO, Vittorio Emanuele CAMILLERI, Valentina CAZZATO, Silvia CEREA, Apitchaya CHAIWUTIKORNWANICH, Trawin CHALEERAKTRAKOON, Tim CHAMBERS, Chen QING-WEI, Xin CHEN, Chien CHIN-LUNG, Phatthanakit CHOBTHAMKIT, Bovornpot CHOOMPUNUCH, Emilio J COMPTE, Jennifer CORRIGAN, Getrude COSMAS, Richard G COWDEN, Kamila CZEPCZOR-BERNAT, Marcin CZUB, Wanderson Roberto da SILVA, Mahboubeh DADFAR, Simon E DALLEY, Lionel DANY, Jesus Alfonso D DATU, Pedro Henrique Berbert de CARVALHO, Gabriel Lins de Holanda COELHO, Avila Odia S De JESUS, Sonia Harzallah DEBBABI, Sandesh DHAKAL, Francesca Di BERNARDO, Donka D DIMITROVA, Jacinthe DION, Barnaby DIXSON, Stacey M DONOFRIO, Marius DRYSCH, Hongfei DU, Angel M DZHAMBOV, Claire EL-JOR, Violeta ENEA, Mehmet ESKIN, Farinaz FARBOD, Lorleen FARRUGIA, Leonie FIAN, Maryanne L FISHER, Michał FOLWARCZNY, David A FREDERICK, Matthew FULLER-TYSZKIEWICZ, Adrian FURNHAM, Antonio Alías GARCÍA, Shulamit GELLER, Marta GHISI, Alireza GHORBANI, Maria Angeles Gomez MARTINEZ, Sarah GRADIDGE, Sylvie GRAF, Caterina GRANO, Gyöngyvér GYENE, Souheil HALLIT, Motasem HAMDAN, Jonathan E HANDELZALTS, Paul H P HANEL, Steven R HAWKS, Issa HEKMATI, Mai HELMY, Tetiana HILL, Farah HINA, Geraldine HOLENWEGER, Martina HŘEBÍČKOVÁ, Olasupo Augustine IJABADENIYI, Asma IMAM, Başak İNCE, Natalia IRRAZABAL, Rasa JANKAUSKIENE, Jiang DING-YU, Micaela JIMÉNEZ-BORJA, Verónica JIMÉNEZ-BORJA, Evan M JOHNSON, Veljko JOVANOVIĆ, Marija JOVIĆ, Marko JOVIĆ, Alessandra Costa Pereira JUNQUEIRA, Kahle LISA-MARIE, Adam KANTANISTA, Ahmet KARAKIRAZ, Ayşe Nur KARKIN, Erich KASTEN, Salam KHATIB, Nuannut KHIEOWAN, Patricia Joseph KIMONG, Litza KIROPOULOS, Joshua KNITTEL, Neena KOHLI, Mirjam KOPRIVNIK, Aituar KOSPAKOV, Magdalena KRÓL-ZIELIŃSKA, Isabel KRUG, Garry KUAN, Yee Cheng KUEH, Omar KUJAN, Miljana KUKIĆ, Sanjay KUMAR, Vipul KUMAR, Nishtha LAMBA, Mary Anne LAURI, Maria Fernanda LAUS, Liza April LEBLANC, Hyejoo J LEE, Małgorzata LIPOWSKA, Mariusz LIPOWSKI, Caterina LOMBARDO, Andrea LUKÁCS, Christophe MAÏANO, Sadia MALIK, Mandar MANJARY, Lidia Márquez BALDÓ, Martha MARTINEZ-BANFI, Karlijn MASSAR, Camila MATERA, Olivia MCANIRLIN, Moisés Roberto MEBARAK, Anwar MECHRI, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras MEIRELES, Norbert MESKO, Jacqueline MILLS, Maya MIYAIRI, Ritu MODI, Adriana MODRZEJEWSKA, Justyna MODRZEJEWSKA, Kate E MULGREW, Taryn A MYERS, Hikari NAMATAME, Mohammad Zakaria NASSANI, Amanda NERINI, Félix NETO, Joana NETO, Angela Noguiera NEVES, Ng SIU-KUEN, Devi NITHIYA, O. JIAQING, Sahar OBEID, Camila ODA-MONTECINOS, Peter Olamakinde OLAPEGBA, Tosin Tunrayo OLONISAKIN, Salma Samir OMAR, Brynja ÖRLYGSDÓTTIR, Emrah ÖZSOY, Tobias OTTERBRING, Sabine PAHL, Maria Serena PANASITI, Yonguk PARK, Muhammad Mainuddin PATWARY, Tatiana PETHÖ, Nadezhda PETROVA, Jakob PIETSCHNIG, Sadaf POURMAHMOUD, Vishnunarayan Girishan PRABHU, Vita POŠTUVAN, Pavol PROKOP, Virginia L Ramseyer WINTER, Magdalena RAZMUS, Taotao RU, Mirjana RUPAR, Reza N SAHLAN, Mohammad Salah HASSAN, Anđela ŠALOV, Saphal SAPKOTA, Jacob Owusu SARFO, Yoko SAWAMIYA, Katrin SCHAEFER, Michael SCHULTE-MECKLENBECK, Veya SEEKIS, Kerim SELVI, Mehdi SHARIFI, Anita SHRIVASTAVA, Rumana Ferdousi SIDDIQUE, Valdimar SIGURDSSON, Vineta SILKANE, Ana ŠIMUNIĆ, Govind SINGH, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Christine SUNDGOT-BORGEN, Gill Ten HOOR, Passagorn TEVICHAPONG, Arun TIPANDJAN, Jennifer TODD, Constantinos TOGAS, Fernando TONINI, Juan Camilo TOVAR-CASTRO, Lise Katrine Jepsen TRANGSRUD, Pankaj TRIPATHI, Otilia TUDOREL, Tracy L TYLKA, Anar UYZBAYEVA, Zahir VALLY, Edmunds VANAGS, Luis Diego VEGA, Aitor VICENTE-ARRUEBARRENA, Jose VIDAL-MOLLÓN, Roosevelt VILAR, Hyxia VILLEGAS, Mona VINTILĂ, Christoph WALLNER, Mathew P WHITE, Simon WHITEBRIDGE, Sonja WINDHAGER, Kah Yan WONG, Eric Kenson YAU, Yuko YAMAMIYA, Victoria Wai Lan YEUNG, Marcelo Callegari ZANETTI, Magdalena ZAWISZA, Nadine ZEENI, Martina ZVARÍKOVÁ and Martin VORACEK
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.
SWAMI, Viren, Ulrich S TRAN, Stefan STIEGER, Toivo AAVIK, Hamed Abdollahpour RANJBAR, Sulaiman Olanrewaju ADEBAYO, Reza AFHAMI, Oli AHMED, Annie AIMÉ, Marwan AKEL, Hussam Al HALBUSI, George ALEXIAS, Khawla F ALI, Nursel ALP-DAL, Anas B ALSALHANI, Sara ÁLVARES-SOLAS, Ana Carolina Soares AMARAL, Sonny ANDRIANTO, Trefor ASPDEN, Marios ARGYRIDES, John Jamir Benzon R ARUTA, Stephen ATKIN, Olusola AYANDELE, Migle BACEVICIENE, Radvan BAHBOUH, Andrea BALLESIO, David BARRON, Ashleigh BELLARD, Sóley Sesselja BENDER, Kerime Derya BEYDAĞ, Gorana BIROVLJEVIĆ, Blackburn MARIE-ÈVE, Teresita BORJA-ALVAREZ, Joanna BOROWIEC, Miroslava BOZOGÁŇOVÁ, Solfrid BRATLAND-SANDA, Matthew H E M BROWNING, Anna BRYTEK-MATERA, Marina BURAKOVA, Yeliz ÇAKIR-KOÇAK, Pablo CAMACHO, Vittorio Emanuele CAMILLERI, Valentina CAZZATO, Silvia CEREA, Apitchaya CHAIWUTIKORNWANICH, Trawin CHALEERAKTRAKOON, Tim CHAMBERS, Chen QING-WEI, Xin CHEN, Chien CHIN-LUNG, Phatthanakit CHOBTHAMKIT, Bovornpot CHOOMPUNUCH, Emilio J COMPTE, Jennifer CORRIGAN, Getrude COSMAS, Richard G COWDEN, Kamila CZEPCZOR-BERNAT, Marcin CZUB, Wanderson Roberto da SILVA, Mahboubeh DADFAR, Simon E DALLEY, Lionel DANY, Jesus Alfonso D DATU, Pedro Henrique Berbert de CARVALHO, Gabriel Lins de Holanda COELHO, Avila Odia S De JESUS, Sonia Harzallah DEBBABI, Sandesh DHAKAL, Francesca Di BERNARDO, Donka D DIMITROVA, Jacinthe DION, Barnaby DIXSON, Stacey M DONOFRIO, Marius DRYSCH, Hongfei DU, Angel M DZHAMBOV, Claire EL-JOR, Violeta ENEA, Mehmet ESKIN, Farinaz FARBOD, Lorleen FARRUGIA, Leonie FIAN, Maryanne L FISHER, Michał FOLWARCZNY, David A FREDERICK, Matthew FULLER-TYSZKIEWICZ, Adrian FURNHAM, Antonio Alías GARCÍA, Shulamit GELLER, Marta GHISI, Alireza GHORBANI, Maria Angeles Gomez MARTINEZ, Sarah GRADIDGE, Sylvie GRAF, Caterina GRANO, Gyöngyvér GYENE, Souheil HALLIT, Motasem HAMDAN, Jonathan E HANDELZALTS, Paul H P HANEL, Steven R HAWKS, Issa HEKMATI, Mai HELMY, Tetiana HILL, Farah HINA, Geraldine HOLENWEGER, Martina HŘEBÍČKOVÁ, Olasupo Augustine IJABADENIYI, Asma IMAM, Başak İNCE, Natalia IRRAZABAL, Rasa JANKAUSKIENE, Jiang DING-YU, Micaela JIMÉNEZ-BORJA, Verónica JIMÉNEZ-BORJA, Evan M JOHNSON, Veljko JOVANOVIĆ, Marija JOVIĆ, Marko JOVIĆ, Alessandra Costa Pereira JUNQUEIRA, Kahle LISA-MARIE, Adam KANTANISTA, Ahmet KARAKIRAZ, Ayşe Nur KARKIN, Erich KASTEN, Salam KHATIB, Nuannut KHIEOWAN, Patricia Joseph KIMONG, Litza KIROPOULOS, Joshua KNITTEL, Neena KOHLI, Mirjam KOPRIVNIK, Aituar KOSPAKOV, Magdalena KRÓL-ZIELIŃSKA, Isabel KRUG, Garry KUAN, Yee Cheng KUEH, Omar KUJAN, Miljana KUKIĆ, Sanjay KUMAR, Vipul KUMAR, Nishtha LAMBA, Mary Anne LAURI, Maria Fernanda LAUS, Liza April LEBLANC, Hyejoo J LEE, Małgorzata LIPOWSKA, Mariusz LIPOWSKI, Caterina LOMBARDO, Andrea LUKÁCS, Christophe MAÏANO, Sadia MALIK, Mandar MANJARY, Lidia Márquez BALDÓ, Martha MARTINEZ-BANFI, Karlijn MASSAR, Camila MATERA, Olivia MCANIRLIN, Moisés Roberto MEBARAK, Anwar MECHRI, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras MEIRELES, Norbert MESKO, Jacqueline MILLS, Maya MIYAIRI, Ritu MODI, Adriana MODRZEJEWSKA, Justyna MODRZEJEWSKA, Kate E MULGREW, Taryn A MYERS, Hikari NAMATAME, Mohammad Zakaria NASSANI, Amanda NERINI, Félix NETO, Joana NETO, Angela Noguiera NEVES, Ng SIU-KUEN, Devi NITHIYA, O. JIAQING, Sahar OBEID, Camila ODA-MONTECINOS, Peter Olamakinde OLAPEGBA, Tosin Tunrayo OLONISAKIN, Salma Samir OMAR, Brynja ÖRLYGSDÓTTIR, Emrah ÖZSOY, Tobias OTTERBRING, Sabine PAHL, Maria Serena PANASITI, Yonguk PARK, Muhammad Mainuddin PATWARY, Tatiana PETHÖ, Nadezhda PETROVA, Jakob PIETSCHNIG, Sadaf POURMAHMOUD, Vishnunarayan Girishan PRABHU, Vita POŠTUVAN, Pavol PROKOP, Virginia L Ramseyer WINTER, Magdalena RAZMUS, Taotao RU, Mirjana RUPAR, Reza N SAHLAN, Mohammad Salah HASSAN, Anđela ŠALOV, Saphal SAPKOTA, Jacob Owusu SARFO, Yoko SAWAMIYA, Katrin SCHAEFER, Michael SCHULTE-MECKLENBECK, Veya SEEKIS, Kerim SELVI, Mehdi SHARIFI, Anita SHRIVASTAVA, Rumana Ferdousi SIDDIQUE, Valdimar SIGURDSSON, Vineta SILKANE, Ana ŠIMUNIĆ, Govind SINGH, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Christine SUNDGOT-BORGEN, Gill Ten HOOR, Passagorn TEVICHAPONG, Arun TIPANDJAN, Jennifer TODD, Constantinos TOGAS, Fernando TONINI, Juan Camilo TOVAR-CASTRO, Lise Katrine Jepsen TRANGSRUD, Pankaj TRIPATHI, Otilia TUDOREL, Tracy L TYLKA, Anar UYZBAYEVA, Zahir VALLY, Edmunds VANAGS, Luis Diego VEGA, Aitor VICENTE-ARRUEBARRENA, Jose VIDAL-MOLLÓN, Roosevelt VILAR, Hyxia VILLEGAS, Mona VINTILĂ, Christoph WALLNER, Mathew P WHITE, Simon WHITEBRIDGE, Sonja WINDHAGER, Kah Yan WONG, Eric Kenson YAU, Yuko YAMAMIYA, Victoria Wai Lan YEUNG, Marcelo Callegari ZANETTI, Magdalena ZAWISZA, Nadine ZEENI, Martina ZVARÍKOVÁ and Martin VORACEK. Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age. Body Image. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER, 2023, vol. 46, September 2023, p. 449-466. ISSN 1740-1445. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010.
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TY - JOUR ID - 2309697 AU - 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 - Marie-Ève, Blackburn - 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 - Qing-Wei, Chen - Chen, Xin - Chin-Lung, Chien - Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit - Choompunuch, Bovornpot - Compte, Emilio J - Corrigan, Jennifer - Cosmas, Getrude - Cowden, Richard G - Czepczor-Bernat, Kamila - Czub, Marcin - Silva, Wanderson Roberto da - Dadfar, Mahboubeh - Dalley, Simon E - Dany, Lionel - Datu, Jesus Alfonso D - Carvalho, Pedro Henrique Berbert de - Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda - Jesus, Avila Odia S De - Debbabi, Sonia Harzallah - Dhakal, Sandesh - Bernardo, Francesca Di - 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, Geraldine - Hřebíčková, Martina - Ijabadeniyi, Olasupo Augustine - Imam, Asma - İnce, Başak - Irrazabal, Natalia - Jankauskiene, Rasa - Ding-Yu, Jiang - Jiménez-Borja, Micaela - Jiménez-Borja, Verónica - Johnson, Evan M - Jovanović, Veljko - Jović, Marija - Jović, Marko - Junqueira, Alessandra Costa Pereira - Lisa-Marie, Kahle - Kantanista, Adam - Karakiraz, Ahmet - Karkin, Ayşe Nur - Kasten, Erich - Khatib, Salam - Khieowan, Nuannut - Kimong, Patricia Joseph - Kiropoulos, Litza - Knittel, Joshua - 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 et al. PY - 2023 TI - Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age JF - Body Image VL - 46 IS - September 2023 SP - 449-466 EP - 449-466 PB - ELSEVIER SN - 17401445 KW - Body appreciation KW - Body appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) KW - Measurement invariance KW - Cross-cultural KW - Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) KW - Psychometrics KW - Structural analysis UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144523001079?via%3Dihub 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. ER -
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