Jinbo He, Chanyuan Tang, Jianwen Song, Tianxiang Cui, Wesley R Barnhart, Shuqi Cui, Yaoxiang Ren, Jason M Nagata
The present study developed the Muscularity Bias Internalization Scale (MBIS), a measure of muscularity bias internalization, which assesses the extent to which an individual endorses muscularity-based stereotypes and engages in negative self-evaluations due to muscularity. In Study 1, a pool of candidate items was developed. By using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on a sample of 300 Chinese adult men (Mage = 29.98 years, SD = 7.81), 14 items from the item pool were retained. The 14-item MBIS contained three factors...
October 13, 2022: Body Image