The Chinese version of the Functionality Appreciation Scale: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender and age

Table 1 Standardized factor loadings of EFA for the one-dimensional structure of the C-FAS by gender for four age groups: Studies 1, 2, and 3

Items	Study 1: Middle school students		Study 1: High school students		Study 2: Young adults (n = 473)		Study 3: Older adults (n = 313)
Items	Boys (n = 210)	Girls (n = 239)	Boys (n = 308)	Girls (n = 369)	Men (n = 124)	Women (n = 113)	Men (n = 75)	Women (n = 81)
1. I appreciate my body for what it is capable of doing	0.75	0.73	0.80	0.76	0.75	0.75	0.82	0.87
2. I am grateful for the health of my body, even if it isn’t always as healthy as I would like it to be	0.69	0.68	0.71	0.78	0.80	0.68	0.87	0.94
3. I appreciate that my body allows me to communicate and interact with others	0.86	0.92	0.87	0.88	0.80	0.77	0.93	0.95
4. I acknowledge and appreciate when my body feels good and/or relaxed	0.86	0.84	0.84	0.81	0.84	0.70	0.90	0.93
5. I am grateful that my body enables me to engage in activities that I enjoy or find important	0.88	0.89	0.89	0.83	0.74	0.85	0.84	0.95
6. I feel that my body does so much for me	0.84	0.90	0.84	0.84	0.79	0.86	0.84	0.95
7. I respect my body for the functions it performs	0.87	0.87	0.81	0.87	0.87	0.74	0.85	0.93

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