The Ben-Tovim Walker Body Attitudes Questionnaire (BAQ) is a 44 item self-report questionnaire divided into six subscales that measures a woman's attitude towards their own body. The BAQ is used in the assessment of eating disorders. It was devised by D.I. Ben-Tovim and M.K. Walker in 1991.

The six subscales measured by the BAQ are:

1. Overall fatness
   
2. Self disparagement
   
3. Strength
   
4. Salience
   Salience
   Salience or saliency may refer to:* Salience , the state or quality of an item that stands out relative to neighboring items* Salience , relative importance or prominence of a piece of a sign...
   
    of weight
   
5. Feelings of attractiveness
   Attractiveness
   Attractiveness or attraction refers to a quality that causes an interest or desire in something or someone. The term attraction may also refer to the object of the attraction itself, as in tourist attraction.-Visual attractiveness:...
   
   
   
6. Consciousness
   Consciousness
   Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
   
    of lower body fat
   

Portuguese version

The BAQ was the first body attitudes scale to be translated into Portuguese. The validity of the Portuguese language version was proven in a test conducted on a cohort of Brazilian women who speak Portuguese as their native language. The test-retest relliability was .57 and .85 after a one month interval. The test was conducted by Scagliusi et al.

Japanese version

The BAQ was translated into Japanese and tested on 68 males and 139 females in Japan and 68 Japanese males living in Australia (Kagawa et al.) The scores were assessed against 72 Australian men using the English language version as well as scores from previous female Australian participants. There was a significant difference between the Japanese and Australian groups (p,0.05). The BAQ was deemed adequate for use in both Japanese males and females.

See also

• Body Attitudes Test
  Body Attitudes Test
  The Body Attitudes Test was developed by Probst et al. in 1995. It was designed for the assessment of eating disorders in women. The BAT measures an individual's subjective body experience and attitudes towards one's own body it differentiates between clinical and non-clinical subjects and between...
  
  
• Eating Disorder Inventory
  Eating Disorder Inventory
  The Eating Disorder Inventory is a self-report questionnaire used to assess the presence of eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa both restricting and binge-eating/purging type; Bulimia Nervosa; and Eating disorder not otherwise specified including Binge Eating Disorder...
  
  
• SCOFF questionnaire
  SCOFF questionnaire
  The SCOFF questionnaire utilizes an acronym in a simple five question test devised for use by non-professionals to assess the possible presence of an eating disorder. It was devised by Morgan et al. in 1999. The original SCOFF questionnaire was devised for use in the United Kingdom, thus the...
  
  
• Eating Attitudes Test
  Eating Attitudes Test
  The Eating Attitudes Test is a widely used standardized self-report measure of symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders and is more fully described on the EAT-26.com website...