Body Checking Cognitions Scale (BCCS)

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Chapter 19 - Body Checking Cognitions Scale (BCCS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2025

Victoria A. Mountford ,

Anne M. Haase and

Glenn Waller

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter ,

Tracy L. Tylka and

Antoinette M. Landor

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter: Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Tracy L. Tylka: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Antoinette M. Landor: Affiliation:
University of Missouri

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The 21-item Body Checking Cognitions Scale (BCCS) assesses the beliefs that maintain the individual’s use of unhealthy levels of body checking. The BCCS can be administered online or in-person to adolescents and adults (with or without an eating disorder), and is free to use in research and clinical settings. This chapter first discusses the importance of body checking and the cognitions that maintain it. It then describes the development of the BCCS, scoring of the measure and its subscales, and how it can be administered. The chapter then details the validity, reliability, factor structure and internal consistency of the measure, all of which support the use of a 19-item version of the measure. The BCCS has been shown to have four factors in most studies (using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), though there have also been suggestions that two factors might be a viable model. Translations into a number of languages have been conducted. The full BCCS is presented, along with the scoring key and instructions for administration.

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Body Checking Cognitions Scale BCCS body checking beliefs objective verification reassurance safety beliefs body control scale development psychometric evidence factor structure reliability validity administration scoring translations

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Information: Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures , pp. 55 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009398275.020 [Opens in a new window]

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