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; ... (2023). 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, 46, pp. 449-466. Elsevier 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010
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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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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Innovation Management > Consumer Behavior 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Innovation Management |
UniBE Contributor: |
Holenweger, Geraldine, Knittel, Joshua John |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations |
ISSN: |
1740-1445 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
16 Aug 2023 10:34 |
Last Modified: |
08 Sep 2023 00:16 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010 |
PubMed ID: |
37582318 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Body appreciation Body appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) Cross-cultural Measurement invariance Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) Psychometrics Structural analysis |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/185493 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/185493 |
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