Psychometric properties of an Arabic translation of the body appreciation scale (BAS-2) and its short forms (BAS-2SF) in a community sample of Lebanese adults

Table 4 Items of the BAS-2 in English and factor loadings derived from the exploratory factor analyses (EFA) in the total sample, women and men

	EFA (3-item BAS-2SF)			EFA (2-item BAS-2SF)
Item	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Total
1	.88	.90	.89
6	.89	.90	.90	.94	.94	.94
7	.89	.92	.91
9				.94	.94	.94
McDonald’s omega	.86	.89	.88	.86	.86	.86
Percentage of variance explained	78.36	82.08	80.68	87.39	87.46	87.62

The 3-item BAS-2SF: Total Sample: KMO = 0.743; Bartlett’s X2 = 1317.44; df = 3; p < 0.001)
Men: KMO = 0.744; Bartlett’s X2 = 601.70; df = 3; p < 0.001)
Women: KMO = 0.736; Bartlett’s X2 = 665.07; df = 3; p < 0.001)
The 2–item BAS-2SF: Total sample: KMO = 0.500; Bartlett’s X2 = 687.82; df = 1; p < 0.001)
Men: KMO = 0.500; Bartlett’s X2 = 284.61; df = 1; p < 0.001)
Women: KMO = 0.500; Bartlett’s X2 = 389.63; df = 1; p < 0.001)

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