Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age

Viren Swami; 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; John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta; Marios Argyrides; Stephen Atkin; Olusola Ayandele; Migle Baceviciene; Radvan Bahbouh; Andrea Ballesio; David Barron; Ashleigh Bellard; Sóley Sesselja Bender; Kerime Derya Beydağ; Gorana Birovljević; Marie-Ève Blackburn; Teresita Borja-Alvarez; Joanna Borowiec; Miroslava Bozogáňová; Solfrid Bratland-Sanda; Matthew H.E.M. Browning; Anna Brytek-Matera; Marina Burakova; Pablo Camacho; Yeliz Çakır-Koçak; Vittorio Emanuele Camilleri; Valentina Cazzato; Silvia Cerea; Apitchaya Chaiwutikornwanich; Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon; Tim Chambers; Qing-Wei Chen; Xin Chen; Chin-Lung Chien; Phatthanakit Chobthamkit; Bovornpot Choompunuch; Emilio J. Compte; Jennifer Corrigan; Getrude Cosmas; Richard G. Cowden; Kamila Czepczor-Bernat; Marcin Czub; Wanderson Roberto da Silva; Simon E. Dalley; Mahboubeh Dadfar; 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; Farinaz Farbod; Mehmet Eskin; 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; Ding-Yu Jiang; Micaela Jiménez-Borja; Verónica Jiménez-Borja; Evan M. Johnson; Veljko Jovanović; Marija Jović; Marko Jović; Alessandra Costa Pereira Junqueira; Lisa-Marie Kahle; 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; Siu-Kuen Ng; Devi Nithiya; Jiaqing O; 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; Martin Voracek

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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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Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age

Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Stefan Stieger, Toivo Aavik, Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, Reza Afhami, Oli Ahmed, Annie Aimé, Marwan Akel, …

Body Image, Vol.46, pp.449-466

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010

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Body appreciation

Body appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2)

Cross-cultural

Measurement invariance

Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA)

Psychometrics

Structural analysis

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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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Title: Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age
Authors: Viren Swami (Corresponding Author) - Anglia Ruskin University
Ulrich S. Tran (Author) - University of Vienna
Stefan Stieger (Author) - Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Toivo Aavik (Author) - University of Tartu
Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar (Author) - Koç University
Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo (Author) - Ekiti State University
Reza Afhami (Author) - Tarbiat Modares University
Oli Ahmed (Author) - University of Chittagong
Annie Aimé (Author) - Université du Québec en Outaouais
Marwan Akel (Author) - Lebanese International University
Hussam Al Halbusi (Author) - Ahmed Bin Mohammad Military College
George Alexias (Author) - University of Social and Political Sciences
Khawla F. Ali (Author) - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Bahrain
Nursel Alp-Dal (Author) - Munzur University
Anas B. Alsalhani (Author) - Vision Colleges (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Sara Álvares-Solas (Author) - Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM
Ana Carolina Soares Amaral (Author) - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Alagoas
Sonny Andrianto (Author) - Islamic University of Indonesia
Trefor Aspden (Author) - Aberystwyth University
John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta (Author) - De La Salle University
Marios Argyrides (Author) - Neapolis University Pafos
Stephen Atkin (Author) - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Bahrain
Olusola Ayandele (Author) - University of Ibadan
Migle Baceviciene (Author) - Klaipėdos valstybinė kolegija / Higher Education Institution
Radvan Bahbouh (Author) - Charles University
Andrea Ballesio (Author) - Sapienza University of Rome
David Barron (Author) - Heriot-Watt University Malaysia
Ashleigh Bellard (Author) - Liverpool John Moores University
Sóley Sesselja Bender (Author) - University of Iceland
Kerime Derya Beydağ (Author) - Gedik University
Gorana Birovljević (Author) - University of Rijeka
Marie-Ève Blackburn (Author) - Cégep de Jonquière
Teresita Borja-Alvarez (Author) - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Joanna Borowiec (Author) - Hungarian University of Sports Science
Miroslava Bozogáňová (Author) - University of Prešov
Solfrid Bratland-Sanda (Author) - University of South-Eastern Norway
Matthew H.E.M. Browning (Author) - Clemson University
Anna Brytek-Matera (Author) - Aix-Marseille Université
Marina Burakova (Author) - Aix-Marseille Université
Pablo Camacho (Author)
Yeliz Çakır-Koçak (Author) - Bartin University
Vittorio Emanuele Camilleri (Author) - University of Malta
Valentina Cazzato (Author) - Liverpool John Moores University
Silvia Cerea (Author) - University of Padua
Apitchaya Chaiwutikornwanich (Author) - Chulalongkorn University
Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon (Author) - Thammasat University
Tim Chambers (Author) - Deakin University
Qing-Wei Chen (Author) - South China Normal University
Xin Chen (Author) - New York University School of Medicine
Chin-Lung Chien (Author) - Soochow University
Phatthanakit Chobthamkit (Author) - Thammasat University
Bovornpot Choompunuch (Author) - Mahasarakham University
Emilio J. Compte (Author) - Adolfo Ibáñez University
Jennifer Corrigan (Author) - University College Cork
Getrude Cosmas (Author) - Universiti of Malaysia Sabah
Richard G. Cowden (Author) - Harvard University
Kamila Czepczor-Bernat (Author) - Medical University of Silesia
Marcin Czub (Author) - University of Wrocław
Wanderson Roberto da Silva (Author) - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Simon E. Dalley (Author) - University of Groningen
Mahboubeh Dadfar (Author) - Iran University of Medical Sciences
Lionel Dany (Author) - Aix-Marseille Université
Jesus Alfonso D. Datu (Author) - University of Hong Kong
Pedro Henrique Berbert de Carvalho (Author) - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Gabriel Lins de Holanda Coelho (Author) - University College Cork
Avila Odia S. De Jesus (Author) - De La Salle University
Sonia Harzallah Debbabi (Author) - University of Sousse
Sandesh Dhakal (Author) - Tribhuvan University
Francesca Di Bernardo (Author) - University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Donka D. Dimitrova (Author) - Medical University Plovdiv
Jacinthe Dion (Author) - Université du Québec à Montréal
Barnaby Dixson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Psychology
Stacey M. Donofrio
Marius Drysch
Hongfei Du
Angel M. Dzhambov
Claire El-Jor
Violeta Enea
Farinaz Farbod
Mehmet Eskin
Lorleen Farrugia
Leonie Fian
Maryanne L. Fisher
Michał Folwarczny
David A. Frederick
Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz - Deakin University
Adrian Furnham
Antonio Alías García
Shulamit Geller
Marta Ghisi
Alireza Ghorbani
Maria Angeles Gomez Martinez
Sarah Gradidge
Sylvie Graf
Caterina Grano - Sapienza University of Rome
Gyöngyvér Gyene
Souheil Hallit
Motasem Hamdan
Jonathan E. Handelzalts
Paul H.P. Hanel - University of Essex
Steven R. Hawks
Issa Hekmati
Mai Helmy
Tetiana Hill
Farah Hina
Geraldine Holenweger
Martina Hřebíčková
Olasupo Augustine Ijabadeniyi
Asma Imam
Başak İnce
Natalia Irrazabal - University of Palermo
Rasa Jankauskiene
Ding-Yu Jiang
Micaela Jiménez-Borja
Verónica Jiménez-Borja
Evan M. Johnson
Veljko Jovanović
Marija Jović
Marko Jović
Alessandra Costa Pereira Junqueira
Lisa-Marie Kahle
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 - The University of Melbourne
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 (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Psychology
Taryn A. Myers
Hikari Namatame
Mohammad Zakaria Nassani
Amanda Nerini
Félix Neto
Joana Neto
Angela Noguiera Neves
Siu-Kuen Ng
Devi Nithiya
Jiaqing O
Sahar Obeid
Camila Oda-Montecinos
Peter Olamakinde Olapegba
Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin
Salma Samir Omar
Brynja Örlygsdóttir
Emrah Özsoy
Tobias Otterbring
Sabine Pahl - University of Vienna
Maria Serena Panasiti
Yonguk Park
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary
Tatiana Pethö
Nadezhda Petrova
Jakob Pietschnig
Sadaf Pourmahmoud
Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu
Vita Poštuvan
Pavol Prokop - Slovak Academy of Sciences
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 - United Arab Emirates University
Edmunds Vanags
Luis Diego Vega
Aitor Vicente-Arruebarrena
Jose Vidal-Mollón
Roosevelt Vilar - Sebelas Maret University
Hyxia Villegas
Mona Vintilă
Christoph Wallner
Mathew P. White - University of Vienna
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
Martin Voracek - University of Vienna
Publication details: Body Image, Vol.46, pp.449-466
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010
ISSN: 1873-6807; 1740-1445
Copyright note: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Organisation Unit: Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Cancer Research Cluster; School of Health - Psychology
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99746797302621
Output Type: Journal article

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