The Body Uneasiness Test (BUT): Development and validation of a new body image assessment scale

Abstract

The BUT is psychometrically sound. It can be a valuable tool for the screening and the clinical assessment of abnormal body image attitudes and eating disorders.

Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in trans people: A systematic review of the literature

“…• Body Uneasiness Test (BUT) (Cuzzolaro & Vetrone, 2006): This was employed by five studies in this review Cella et al, 2013;Colizzi et al, 2015;Fisher et al, 2013Fisher et al, , 2014. The measure has two parts: part A which measures weight phobia, body image concerns, avoidance, compulsive self-monitoring, detachment and depersonalisation; and part B which assesses worries about specific body parts (e.g., "I would do anything to change some parts of my body").…”

Validation of the Italian version of the Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief

“…The BUT [27,28] was also administered to evaluate convergent validity. The BUT is a self-report questionnaire that is used to evaluate body image dissatisfaction in the general population.…”

The Impact of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery on Body Image and Psychological Well-Being: A Preliminary Study

“…The Body Uneasiness Test (BUT) was used for the study on body image and its pathologies [33][34][35]. This is a self-administered, multi-dimensional Italian test for the clinical assessment of uneasiness relating to body image.…”

“…Five factors were isolated through the factor analysis: Weight Phobia (WP, Cronbach's α =0.85), Body Image Concerns (BIC; Cronbach's α =0.92), Avoidance (A, Cronbach's α =0.75), Compulsive SelfMonitoring (CSM, Cronbach's α =0.81) and Depersonalisation (D, Cronbach's α =0.77). Various measures can be obtained, including the Global Severity Index (GSI), or overall average score, by summing the scores from the clinical scale (BUT A) and dividing them by the number of items (34). In the assessment of the BUT clinical scale, the existence of clinically significant uneasiness in relation to body image is improbable if the GSI score is < 1.2 and probable if that score is ≥ 1.2 [36].…”