Beyond Body Image as a Trait: The Development and Validation of the Body Image States Scale

By Thomas F. Cash, Emily C Fleming, Jenny L. Alindogan, Laura Steadman, Abigail Whitehead. Eating Disorders, 2002

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Fat Talk Among College Women is Both Contagious and Harmful (2012, background): “The Body Image States Scale (BISS; Cash et al. 2002) is a 6-item measure of individuals’ affect and evaluation with regard to their physical appearance at a particular moment (in response to the prompt “Right now I feel the following about my physical appearance”).”
The Effect of “Thin Ideal” Television Commercials on Body Dissatisfaction and Schema Activation During Early Adolescence (2003, background): “These schemas, or knowledge structures about appearance, can be activated by appearance-related cues, and when activated, influence subsequent emotions and information processing (Altabe and Thompson, 1996; Cash et al., 2002; Labargeet al., 1998; Lavin and Cash, 2001; Markus et al., 1987).”
Picture Perfect: The Direct Effect of Manipulated Instagram Photos on Body Image in Adolescent Girls (2018, methodology): “Following Cash et al. (2002), a 9-point, bipolar, Likert-type scale was used with a higher score indicating a more positive body image.”
Does Media Type Matter? The Role of Identification in Adolescent Girls’ Media Consumption and the Impact of Different Thin-Ideal Media on Body Image (2011, positive): “This 6-item scale has been shown to have high internal reliability in an adolescent sample (Bell et al. 2007) and also good construct validity ( Cash et al. 2002 ).”