Browsing BI Open by Author "Swami, Viren"
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Appearance Orientation and Dating Anxiety in Emerging Adults: Considering the Roles of Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity, Social Physique Anxiety, and Self-Compassion
Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Emerging research has suggested that appearance-related factors, such as greater appearance orientation, are associated with dating anxiety in emerging adults, but much more could be done to understand mechanistic pathways ... -
Are some interoceptive sensibility components more central than others? Using item pool visualisation to understand the psychometric representation of interoception
Todd, Jennifer; Swami, Viren; Aspell, Jane E.; Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George; Stieger, Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Interoception refers to the processing of stimuli originating within the body and is widely considered a multidimensional construct. However, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the definition and measurement of ... -
Asexuality is inversely associated with positive body image in British adults
Swami, Viren; Laughton, Ryan; Grover, Simmy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Research on positive body image has infrequently considered sexual minority orientations beyond lesbians, gay men, and bisexual persons. Indeed, there is no existing research on the relationships between body image and ... -
Associations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adults
Swami, Viren; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Studies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social ... -
Associations between Schizotypal Facets and Symptoms of Disordered Eating in Women
Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Research has suggested that schizotypy—a personality organisation representing latent vulnerability for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders—may be elevated in women with symptoms of disordered eating. However, studies have ... -
A Bibliometric Review of Self-Compassion Research: Science Mapping the Literature, 1999 to 2020
Swami, Viren; Andersen, Njål; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objectives Science mapping is a methodology that combines quantitative analysis, classification, and visualisation to identify the composition and inter-relationships between bibliographic objects. Although science mapping ... -
A Bibliometric Review of Self-Compassion Research: Science Mapping the Literature, 1999 to 2020
Swami, Viren; Andersen, Njål; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives Science mapping is a methodology that combines quantitative analysis, classification, and visualisation to identify the composition and inter-relationships between bibliographic objects. Although science mapping ... -
Body acceptance by others: Refinement of the construct, and development and psychometric evaluation of a revised measure – The Body Acceptance by Others Scale-2
Swami, Viren; Todd, Jennifer; Stieger, Stefan; Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George; Tylka, Tracy L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Body Acceptance by Others Scale (BAOS) measures the degree to which individuals perceive body acceptance by others, but its factor structure is questionable. Here, we developed a revision of the BAOS (i.e., the BAOS-2) ... -
Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age
Swami, Viren; Tran, Ulrich S; Stieger, Stefan; Aavik, Toivo; Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour; abedayo, sulaiman; Afhami, Reza; Ahmed, Oli; Aimé, Annie; Akel, Marwan; Halbusi, Hussam; Alexias, George; Ali, Khawla F.; Alp-Dal, Nursep; Alsalhani, Anas B.; Álvares-Solas, Sara; Amaral, Ana Carolina Soares; Andrianto, Sonny; Aspden, Trefor; Argyrides, Marios; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Atkin, Stephen L.; Ayandele, Olusola; Baceviciene, Migle; Bahbouh, Radvan; Ballesio, Andrea; Barron, David; Bellard, Ashleigh; Bender, Sóley S.; Beydag, Kerime; Birovljević, Gorana; Blackburn, Marie-Eve; Borja-Alvarez, Teresita; Borowiec, Joanna; Bozogáňová, Miroslava; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Browning, Matthew H. E. M.; Brytek-Matera, Anna; Burakova, Marina; Çakır-Koçak, Yeliz; Camacho, Pablo; Camilleri, Vittorio Emanuele; Cazzato, Valentina; Cerea, Silvia; Chaiwutikornwanich, Apitchaya; Chaleeraktrakoon, Trawin; Furnham, Adrian; Otterbring, Tobias; Borgen, Christine Sundgot; Trangsrud, Lise Katrine Jepsen; Voracek, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations ... -
Breast size dissatisfaction, but not body dissatisfaction, is associated with breast self-examination frequency and breast change detection in British women
Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Studies examining associations between body image and breast self-examination (BSE) have returned mixed findings, but this may be a function of focusing on global body image. Here, we examined the impact of breast size ... -
COVID-19-related stress and anxiety are associated with negative body image in adults from the United Kingdom
Swami, Viren; Horne, George; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The stress and anxiety caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents a serious threat to psychological well-being in populations worldwide and may also extend to body image outcomes. To test this hypothesis, we ... -
The intuitive eating scale-2: re-evaluating its factor structure using a bifactor exploratory structural equation modelling framework
Swami, Viren; Maïano, Christophe; Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose Previous studies examining the appropriateness of the 4-factor model of intuitive eating scale-2 (IES-2) scores have returned equivocal results, which may reflect methodological limitations in the way IES-2 scores ... -
Mental health literacy of maternal and paternal postnatal (postpartum) depression in British adults
Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Smith, Lee; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Postnatal depression affects between 6 and 13% of new parents, but only a small proportion of individuals who meet diagnostic criteria receive optimal treatment. One reason for this is poor mental health literacy of postnatal ... -
Nature exposure and positive body image: (Re-)examining the mediating roles of connectedness to nature and trait mindfulness
Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Todd, Jennifer; Horne, George; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Previous studies have reported a significant association between nature exposure and positive body image, but understandings of the mechanisms that help to explain this link remain nascent. Here, we considered the extent ... -
The Nature of Positive Body Image: Examining Associations Between Nature Exposure, Self-Compassion, Functionality Appreciation, and Body Appreciation
Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Hari, Ranjeev; Grover, Simmy; Smith, Lee; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Previous studies have shown that exposure to natural environments is associated with positive body image, but mechanistic pathways are not fully understood. Here, we tested one possible pathway, namely with self-compassion ... -
Positive Rational Acceptance of Body Image Threats Mediates the Association between Nature Exposure and Body Appreciation
Swami, Viren; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to natural environments is associated with more positive body image, but mechanistic pathways are not fully understood. In this study, we tested one such indirect pathway involving ... -
Science mapping research on body image: A bibliometric review of publications in Body Image, 2004–2020
Andersen, Njål; Swami, Viren (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Science mapping is a methodology that combines quantitative analysis, classification, and visualisation to identify the composition and inter-relationships between bibliographic objects. Here, we used bibliometric science ... -
Science mapping research on body image: A bibliometric review of publications in Body Image, 2004–2020
Andersen, Njål; Swami, Viren (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Science mapping is a methodology that combines quantitative analysis, classification, and visualisation to identify the composition and inter-relationships between bibliographic objects. Here, we used bibliometric science ... -
Support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies: Modelling the role of attitudes toward poverty alongside weight stigma, causal attributions about weight, and prejudice
Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin; Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte; Tran, Ulrich S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the present study, we sought to position support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies within a broader political and socioeconomic context. Specifically, we hypothesised that individualistic (rather ... -
Taking it apart and putting it back together again: Using Item PoolVisualisation to summarise complex data patterns in (positive) bodyimage research
Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George; Stieger, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Issues of construct commonality and distinguishability in body image research are typically addressed using structural equal models, but such methods can sometimes present problems of interpretation when data patterns are ...