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Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents

Body image is a mental representation that a person has, which could become a body dissatisfaction due to the pressure exerted by the culture, affecting several life stages specially in adolescents. The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties and factorial invariance of the ques...

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Autores principales: Nájera-Longoria, Raúl Josué, Blanco, José René, Jiménez-Lira, Carolina, Aguirre, Susana Ivonne, Blanco, Humberto, Conchas-Ramírez, Miguel, Rangel-Ledezma, Yunuen Socorro, Jurado-García, Perla Jannet
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34572221
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8090789
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author Nájera-Longoria, Raúl Josué
Blanco, José René
Jiménez-Lira, Carolina
Aguirre, Susana Ivonne
Blanco, Humberto
Conchas-Ramírez, Miguel
Rangel-Ledezma, Yunuen Socorro
Jurado-García, Perla Jannet
author_facet Nájera-Longoria, Raúl Josué
Blanco, José René
Jiménez-Lira, Carolina
Aguirre, Susana Ivonne
Blanco, Humberto
Conchas-Ramírez, Miguel
Rangel-Ledezma, Yunuen Socorro
Jurado-García, Perla Jannet
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description Body image is a mental representation that a person has, which could become a body dissatisfaction due to the pressure exerted by the culture, affecting several life stages specially in adolescents. The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties and factorial invariance of the questionnaire to assess body image dissatisfaction. The sample consisted of 552 Mexican teenagers, 259 female, and 293 male, with a mean age of 12.91 ± 0.96 years. Confirmatory Factor Analyses show that a five-factor structure is viable and adequate. The five-factor structure (perceptual, emotional distress, behavioral, proposal to change, and fear of gaining weight) show adequate fit indices and validity, even though the obtained model does not completely correspond to that proposed by the authors of the scale, it continues to endorse the multifactorial component of body dissatisfaction. On the other hand, the factorial structure, the factor loadings, and the intercepts are considered invariant in both populations; however, there are differences between the populations for the means of the perceptual, emotional distress, and fear of gaining weight factors. This study serves as a premise for future research on the study of instruments for measuring body image in populations with different personal and cultural factors.
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spelling pubmed-84702262021-09-27 Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents Nájera-Longoria, Raúl Josué Blanco, José René Jiménez-Lira, Carolina Aguirre, Susana Ivonne Blanco, Humberto Conchas-Ramírez, Miguel Rangel-Ledezma, Yunuen Socorro Jurado-García, Perla Jannet Children (Basel) Article Body image is a mental representation that a person has, which could become a body dissatisfaction due to the pressure exerted by the culture, affecting several life stages specially in adolescents. The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties and factorial invariance of the questionnaire to assess body image dissatisfaction. The sample consisted of 552 Mexican teenagers, 259 female, and 293 male, with a mean age of 12.91 ± 0.96 years. Confirmatory Factor Analyses show that a five-factor structure is viable and adequate. The five-factor structure (perceptual, emotional distress, behavioral, proposal to change, and fear of gaining weight) show adequate fit indices and validity, even though the obtained model does not completely correspond to that proposed by the authors of the scale, it continues to endorse the multifactorial component of body dissatisfaction. On the other hand, the factorial structure, the factor loadings, and the intercepts are considered invariant in both populations; however, there are differences between the populations for the means of the perceptual, emotional distress, and fear of gaining weight factors. This study serves as a premise for future research on the study of instruments for measuring body image in populations with different personal and cultural factors. MDPI 2021-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8470226/ /pubmed/34572221 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8090789 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Nájera-Longoria, Raúl Josué
Blanco, José René
Jiménez-Lira, Carolina
Aguirre, Susana Ivonne
Blanco, Humberto
Conchas-Ramírez, Miguel
Rangel-Ledezma, Yunuen Socorro
Jurado-García, Perla Jannet
Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents
title Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents
title_full Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents
title_fullStr Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents
title_short Composition and Factorial Invariance for the Assessment of Body Image Dissatisfaction Questionnaire in Mexican Adolescents
title_sort composition and factorial invariance for the assessment of body image dissatisfaction questionnaire in mexican adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34572221
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8090789
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