The development of the internalization of sociocultural body ideals scale using items from the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance questionnaire: validity, reliability, and measurement invariance testing

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Medina-Casaubón, J, Sicilia, A, Sánchez-Gallardo, I, Granero-Gallegos, A, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Alcaraz-Ibáñez, M, 2022. The development of the internalization of sociocultural body ideals scale using items from the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance questionnaire: validity, reliability, and measurement invariance testing. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 20, pp. 719-732. ISSN 1557-1874

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-019-00145-7

Abstract

Eating disorders and body image disturbance are known to result in unhealthy consequences. When attempting to understand the etiology and management of these disorders, sociocultural models of body image disturbance and disordered eating have been predominant. The objective of the present study was to develop and validate the Internalization of Sociocultural Body Ideals Scale (ISBIS), a psychometric instrument that utilizes items from various versions of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ). The ISBIS was developed to overcome some of the limitations found in existing instruments (including the SATAQ) that assess the internalization of sociocultural body ideals. The sample comprised 1130 students aged between 10 and 14 years. The psychometric properties of the ISBIS were examined using different analyses. The results supported the eight-item structure: four items for thin body ideal internalization and four items for thin body muscular/athletic internalization. The structure showed invariance to gender and achieved acceptable internal consistency and temporal stability indexes. Controlling for gender and body mass index, the results also showed that the internalization of the thin body ideal positively predicted social-physique anxiety in a statistically significant way. The results provide empirical evidence that the ISBIS is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing sociocultural body ideals in Spanish preadolescents.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Creators:	Medina-Casaubón, J., Sicilia, A., Sánchez-Gallardo, I., Granero-Gallegos, A., Griffiths, M.D. and Alcaraz-Ibáñez, M.
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date:	April 2022
Volume:	20
ISSN:	1557-1874
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s11469-019-00145-7 DOI 1207977 Other
Rights:	© the author(s) 2019. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	29 Oct 2019 09:17
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2022 11:41
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/38057