BI-AAQ (Body Image)
Sandoz, E. K., Wilson, K. G., & Merwin, R. M. (under review). Assessing Body Image Acceptance: The Body Image - Acceptance and Action Questionnaire.
Abstract
As acceptance and mindfulness are increasingly emphasized in body image and disordered eating interventions, the development of measures of proposed change processes related to these skills become necessary. The current study evaluated one such instrument, the Body Image – Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (BI-AAQ), which was designed to measure body image acceptance. One hundred eighty-two undergraduates completed the BI-AAQ along with measures of general distress, body image dissatisfaction, eating pathology, mindfulness, and acceptance. The BI-AAQ was shown to have good internal consistency, as well as concurrent, criterion-related, and incremental validity. Body image acceptance seems to be important in predicting eating pathology above and beyond body image distress, and the BI-AAQ is a psychometrically sound instrument for measuring it. Thus, the BI-AAQ is proposed as a measure of body image acceptance, a potential change process in acceptance-oriented treatments of negative body image and eating disorders.
Scale is linked in .pdf format below and is downloadable for members. All items are reverse-scored to yield a score for body image acceptance.
Contact Emily Sandoz with questions, comments, or requests for the working manuscript: eksandoz@olemiss.edu
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