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(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).1740-1445https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71804The 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.(c) 2023 The Author/sCC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Body appreciationBody appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2)Cross-culturalMeasurement invarianceMulti-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA)PsychometricsStructural analysisHumansBody ImageGender IdentityPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsFactor Analysis, StatisticalLanguageSurveys and QuestionnairesJournal article10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.0101873-6807journal-article449-466https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37582318S1740-1445(23)00107-9