2012/03/09 by Matthew Fuller‐Tyszkiewicz, Helen Skouteris, Marita P. McCabe +3 · 1 citation
Psychology · Business, Management and Accounting · #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Acquiescence #Equivalence (formal languages) #Psychology #Measurement invariance #Social psychology #Scale (ratio) #Confirmatory factor analysis #Cross-cultural studies #Psychometrics #Developmental psychology #Structural equation modeling #Statistics
paper · doi:10.1080/00223891.2012.662186
openalex publication_date 2012/03/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
We evaluated gender-based and cross-cultural equivalence of the Body Dissatisfaction Scale of the Body Change Inventory in a sample of 4,005 adolescents from 7 cultures that represent diverse body image ideals and response styles. Results of multigroup confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated equivalence of the scale across gender but not across cultures. Follow-up analyses identified small but significant cross-cultural differences in response styles (specifically, acquiescence and middle response option endorsement) as the source of this noninvariance. We recommend use of this scale for gender-based comparisons but caution that researchers should evaluate the presence of response biases before making substantive conclusions about cross-cultural differences in body dissatisfaction.