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Development and validation of the Body Compassion Questionnaire
Emily S Beadle1, Alison Cain1, Shazia Akhtar1
1Department of Psychology and Sport Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
|December 6, 2021
Summary
The Body Compassion Questionnaire (BCQ) is a new, validated tool to measure body compassion. It effectively predicts eating disorder symptoms, outperforming general self-compassion measures.
Area of Science:
- Psychological Measurement
- Clinical Psychology
- Body Image Research
Background:
- Established links exist between compassion, self-compassion, and body image.
- A need exists for a compassion-informed measure of body compassion applicable to all body aspects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate The Body Compassion Questionnaire (BCQ).
- To assess the BCQ's utility in predicting eating pathology.
Main Methods:
- Item generation from a self-compassion writing study.
- Multi-study validation including factor analysis, Rasch analysis, and reliability testing.
- Comparison with existing measures and assessment of predictive validity for eating pathology.
Main Results:
- A bi-factor structure emerged with overall BCQ scores and subscales: body kindness, common humanity, motivated action.
- The BCQ demonstrated good validity, reliability, and invariant item fit across demographics.
- BCQ scores correlated with positive body kindness expressions and inversely with negative body image emotions.
- The BCQ was a stronger predictor of eating disorder symptoms than self-compassion.
Conclusions:
- The BCQ is the first measure of body compassion aligned with self-compassion theory.
- It integrates aspects of compassion's first and second psychologies.
- The BCQ shows potential as a process and outcome measure for interventions in eating disorders and body image concerns.
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