LGBT community events in south west England. Ethics approval for this research was granted by ethics committees at the University of Bath and the University of the West of England. A total of 349 men accessed the online questionnaire and consented to take part in the study. Of these men, 149 (42.7%) were removed from the final sample as they completed less than 50% of the questionnaire. Due to inadequate power to explore differences between men identifying with other sexual orientations, we also excluded 31 men who did not identify as gay or heterosexual. The final sample consisted of 155 men, aged 18-69 years (M = 28.83, = 9.93), with 49.7% self-identifying as gay and 50.3% as heterosexual. The sample was SD primarily White British (76.1%), with smaller numbers of participants identifying as “White Other” (10.3%), (3.9%), or Asian British” (3.2%), or Black British” “Mixed” “Asian “Black (1.2%), (.6%) and (4.5%). The majority of participants were in “Chinese” “Other” employment (69%, 28% students, 3% unemployed) and were within the healthy weight body mass index (BMI) range (69.6%; = 24.47, = 4.81). M SD After logging on to the questionnaire website and providing consent, participants were asked to complete the measures outlined below, followed by demographic questions about their age, height, weight, sexual orientation, employment status and ethnicity. Upon completion of the study, participants were offered the chance to enter a prize draw for a £20 Amazon gift voucher. Measures Male Body Attitudes Scale-Revised (MBAS-R; Ryan, Morrison, Roddy, & McCutcheon, 2011). The MBAS-R is a 15-item measure that assesses men’s body fat dissatisfaction (5 items; e.g., height dissatisfaction (3 items; e.g., feel excessively fat”), “I “I and muscularity dissatisfaction (7 items; e.g., wish I were taller”) think my legs are not “I Responses are rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 (rarely) to 5 muscular enough”).
LGBT community events in south west England. Ethics approval for this research was granted by ethics committees at the University of Bath and the University of the West of England. A total of 349 men accessed the online questionnaire and consented to take part in the study. Of these men, 149 (42.7%) were removed from the final sample as they completed less than 50% of the questionnaire. Due to inadequate power to explore differences between men identifying with other sexual orientations, we also excluded 31 men who did not identify as gay or heterosexual. The final sample consisted of 155 men, aged 18-69 years (M = 28.83, SD = 9.93), with 49.7% self-identifying as gay and 50.3% as heterosexual. The sample was primarily White British (76.1%), with smaller numbers of participants identifying as “White Other” (10.3%), “Mixed” (3.9%), “Asian or Asian British” (3.2%), “Black or Black British” (1.2%), “Chinese” (.6%) and “Other” (4.5%). The majority of participants were in employment (69%, 28% students, 3% unemployed) and were within the healthy weight body mass index (BMI) range (69.6%; M = 24.47, SD = 4.81). After logging on to the questionnaire website and providing consent, participants were asked to complete the measures outlined below, followed by demographic questions about their age, height, weight, sexual orientation, employment status and ethnicity. Upon completion of the study, participants were offered the chance to enter a prize draw for a £20 Amazon gift voucher. Measures Male Body Attitudes Scale-Revised (MBAS-R; Ryan, Morrison, Roddy, & McCutcheon, 2011). The MBAS-R is a 15-item measure that assesses men’s body fat dissatisfaction (5 items; e.g., “I feel excessively fat”), height dissatisfaction (3 items; e.g., “I wish I were taller”) and muscularity dissatisfaction (7 items; e.g., “I think my legs are not muscular enough”). Responses are rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 (rarely) to 5
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