The Ben-Tovim Walker Body Attitudes Questionnaire (BAQ) is a 44 item self-report questionnaire divided into six subscales that measures a woman's attitude towards her own body. The BAQ is used in the assessment of
eating disorders
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. It was devised by D.I. Ben-Tovim and M.K. Walker in 1991.
Sub-scales
The six subscales measured by the BAQ are:
# Overall fatness
# Self disparagement
# Strength
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Salience of weight
# Feelings of
attractiveness
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Consciousness
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of lower
body fat
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Foreign-language versions
Portuguese version
The BAQ was the first body attitudes scale to be translated into Portuguese. The validity of the Portuguese language version was proven in a test conducted on a cohort of Brazilian women who speak Portuguese as their native language. The test-retest reliability was 0.57 and 0.85 after a one-month interval. The test was conducted by Scagliusi ''et al.''
Japanese version
The BAQ was translated into Japanese and tested on 68 males and 139 females in Japan and 68 Japanese males living in Australia (Kagawa ''et al.'') The scores were assessed against 72 Australian men using the English-language version as well as scores from previous female Australian participants. There was a significant difference between the Japanese and Australian groups (p,0.05). The BAQ was deemed adequate for use in both Japanese males and females.
[{{cite journal , journal=Eating Behaviors , volume=8 , issue=3 , pages=277–84 , year=2007 , vauthors=Kagawa M, Uchida H, Uenishi K, Binns CW, Hills AP , title=Applicability of the Ben-Tovim Walker Body Attitudes Questionnaire (BAQ) and the Attention to Body Shape scale (ABS) in Japanese males and females , pmid=17606224 , doi = 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2006.11.002 , url=https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12750/1/12750.pdf ]
See also
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Body Attitudes Test
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Bulimia Test-Revised
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Eating Attitudes Test
The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT, EAT-26), created by David Garner, is a widely used 26-item, standardized self-reported questionnaire of symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders. The EAT is useful in assessing "eating disorder ris ...
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Eating Disorder Inventory
The Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) is a self-report questionnaire used to assess the presence of eating disorders, (a) anorexia nervosa both restricting and binge-eating/purging type; (b) bulimia nervosa; and (c) eating disorder not otherwise sp ...
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SCOFF questionnaire
References
Eating disorders screening and assessment tools