English and Spanish versions of the Body Shape Questionnaire: measurement equivalence across ethnicity and clinical status.
OBJECTIVE
We evaluated the psychometric properties and measurement equivalence of various forms of the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) (Cooper et al., Int J Eat Disord, 6, 485-494, 1987) in American and Spanish women with and without an eating disorder diagnosis.


METHODS
Participants included four groups of women: Euro-American (n = 505), Hispanic-American (n = 151), and Spanish (n = 445) females without an eating disorder and Spanish women being treated for an eating disorder (n = 177).


RESULTS
Single and multigroup confirmatory factor analyses using maximum likelihood estimation with robust standard errors tested the data for configural and metric invariance. Goodness-of-fit statistics indicated that the original and all alternate forms of the BSQ fit the data well across groups. Most factor loadings were similar across groups. We also developed a 10-item version that appeared to be invariant across groups.


CONCLUSIONS
Results strongly support configural invariance and offer some support for metric invariance.
Warren
Cortney S
CS
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. cortney.warren@unlv.edu
Cepeda-Benito
Antonio
A
Gleaves
David H
DH
Moreno
Silvia
S
Rodriguez
Sonia
S
Fernandez
Mari Carmen
MC
Fingeret
Michelle Cororve
MC
Pearson
Crystal A
CA
D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013008:Somatotypes; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data