The Body Appreciation Scale: development and psychometric evaluation.

By Laura C. Avalos, Tracy Lynn Tylka, Nichole L. Wood-Barcalow. Body image, 2005

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Self-Compassion and Body Dissatisfaction in Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Meditation Intervention (2014, background): “Body Appreciation While there are numerous instruments that measure negative body image, the self-reported, 13-item Body Appreciation Scale (Avalos et al. 2005) is the first instrument to conceptualize and assess body image as a positive dimension (e.”
The Role of Self-compassion in Women's Self-determined Motives to Exercise and Exercise-related Outcomes (2010, background): “If so, questions about what a physical self-compassion would look like, whether it would be of benefit beyond physical self-worth, and how it might be differentiated from seemingly related constructs such as body appreciation (see Avalos, Tylka, & Wood-Barcalow, 2005 ) could be useful to address in”
The Intuitive Eating Scale-2: item refinement and psychometric evaluation with college women and men. (2013, background): “90), and inversely related to body shame (r .73; Avalos et al., 2005).”
High School Sport Participation and Subsequent Psychological Well-Being and Physical Activity: The Mediating Influences of Body Image, Physical Competence, and Instrumentality (2009, background): “Learning what one’s body can do and valuing the accomplishments that follow, as opposed to simply relying on how one looks, may enhance and expand girls’ and young women’s body image and sense of physical competence ( Avalos et al. 2005; Fredrickson and Roberts 1997).”
Exploring a model of intuitive eating with college women. (2006, methodology): “…body acceptance in spite of weight, body shape, and imperfections; (c) respect for the body by means of attending to its needs and engaging in healthy behaviors; and (d) protection of the body by rejecting unrealistic images of the thin–ideal prototype portrayed in the media (Avalos et al., 2005).”
Self-compassion and Eudaimonic Well-Being During Emotionally Difficult Times in Sport (2015, methodology): “2.2.4.6 Self-acceptance The Body Appreciation Scale (BAS; Avalos et al. 2005), which is a 13-item measure rated from 1 (never) to 5 (always), was used as an indicator of positive body image, which includes acceptance of, favorable opinions towards, and respect for one’s body (Avalos et al. 2005; Tyl”
Sexualizing the Self (2014, background): “Avalos, Tylka, and Wood-Barcalow (2005) have presented evidence for reliability and validity of the scores on the BAS with women through four studies they conducted in developing the scale.”
Successful behavior change in obesity interventions in adults: a systematic review of self-regulation mediators (2015, background): “Body image is a multidimensional concept [76] that depicts attitudes, perceptions, and in some cases behaviors associated with mental representations of one’s body (or some of its parts) [77,78].”
The Body Appreciation Scale-2: item refinement and psychometric evaluation. (2015, methodology): “” The labels included on the item-response scale irrored the original 5-point scale (Avalos et al., 2005): never = 1, eldom = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, always = 5. ody Image 12 (2015) 53–67”
Associations Between Women’s Body Image and Happiness: Results of the YouBeauty.com Body Image Survey (YBIS) (2015, methodology): “Concurrently, however, objectification pressures may decline with age (Tiggemann and Lynch 2001) and older women may also develop resources that focus attention on the body’s functionality rather than appearance (Avalos et al. 2005).”