Body Size Perception and Dissatisfaction in Female Subjects of Different Ages

Guaraldi, Giovanni; Orlandi, Emanuele; Boselli, Paolo; Tartoni, Pier Luigi

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“…But age did not significantly correlate with any judgment and was, therefore, not used as a covariant [6,13], In this study no significance rela tionship was found between BMI and the body size esti mation. Table 2 shows that the results of all groups are very close to the 100% value.…”

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Body-Size Estimation in Eating Disorders Using Video Distortion on a Lif e-Size Screen

Probst

Vandereycken

Coppenolle

1997

Psychother Psychosom

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Background: The video-distortion method on a life-size screen is one of the new methods to systematically study the body experience of eating-disordered patients. Methods: Using this method, we have studied body-size estimation in female patients suffering from eating disorders: anorexia nervosa restricting type (n = 87) and mixed type (n = 34); bulimia nervosa (n = 44), and a normal control group (n = 45). Subjects had to estimate a neutral object (neutral response) and their own body size: what they think they really look like (cognitive response); what they feel they look like (affective response), and what they want to look like (optative response). Results: No significant differences were found for the neutral and the cognitive response. Eating-disordered patients clearly did not overestimate their body size. The different subgroups showed interesting differences in the degree of discrepancy between cognitive and affective responses, and in the thinness of their body ideal. Conclusions: Researchers should focus on these elements of body experience, because they are clinically far more relevant than the simple question of over/underestimation.

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Body-Size Estimation in Eating Disorders Using Video Distortion on a Lif e-Size Screen

Probst

Vandereycken

Coppenolle

1997

Psychother Psychosom

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“…With regard to the correlation between age and body image, some studies [8, 13, 50, 51, 52]have reported that age did not primarily account for differences in body perception and image. Contrary to this, Tadai et al [14]found critical changes in body image during the early and middle periods of adolescence.…”

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Associations between Body Weight, Psychiatric Disorders and Body Image in Female Adolescents

Buddeberg-Fischer¹,

Klaghofer²,

Reed³

1999

Psychother Psychosom

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Objectives: The study explored associations between body weight, psychiatric disorders and body image in a nonclinical sample of female adolescents. It was also investigated whether complaints of negative body image could be an indicator of psychiatric morbidity. Methods: A sample of 136 Swiss female high school students, 15–20 years of age, initially had weight, height and body image (FBeK questionnaire) assessed and were screened for psychiatric morbidity (SSQ). Subsequently, they were assessed using the DIA-X psychiatric interview which generates DSM-IV diagnoses. Univariate, multivariate, regressive and canonical correlation analyses were performed. Results: Being overweight was significantly correlated with a more negative body image (attractiveness/self-confidence). There were also significant correlations between psychiatric diagnoses and unfavorable body image (3 of the 4 FBeK scales). Besides having a more disturbed body image, overweight subjects also evidenced more psychiatric morbidity. The multiple regression analysis revealed that psychiatric disorders had the greatest association with negative body image, followed by age and weight. The canonical correlation indicated that body image, psychiatric disorder, age and weight clearly correlated with one another (R_xy = 0.43). Conclusion: Psychosomatic research should be more concerned about issues of obesity and concurrent psychiatric morbidity and aim to develop preventative as well as therapeutic treatment methods. Physicians should be aware of the associations between obesity, negative body image and psychiatric morbidity.

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“…Originally developed by Allebeck et al (1976) and subsequently utilized with various modi®cations by other investigators (Meermann, 1983;Freeman et al, 1984;Whitehouse et al, 1986;Probst et al, 1992Probst et al, , 1995, the DTIM used in this study is the result of an independent modi®cation developed by the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Modena (Guaraldi et al, 1990(Guaraldi et al, , 1995. The DTIM has the advantage of allowing the subject to select, by herself, the ideal image of her body on a television screen.…”

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“…Of these, 52 (26.2 per cent) agreed to participate. In addition, 26 subjects who were recruited for previous investigations (Guaraldi et al, 1995) also participated.…”

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Body image assessed by a video distortion technique: the relationship between ideal and perceived body image and body dissatisfaction

Guaraldi

Orlandi

Boselli

et al. 1999

Eur. Eat. Disorders Rev.

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Current sociocultural beliefs de®ne feminine beauty as being tall and slender. The relationship between Perceived Body Image, Ideal Body Image and Body Dissatisfaction were assessed by the Distorting Television Image Method (DTIM) in a sample of 78 female subjects ranging in age from 15 to 65 years. Of the sample 88.46 per cent desired a taller and thinner body than their own undistorted image as seen on the television screen. These subjects with an Ideal Body taller and thinner than their own, also had a Perceived Body Image which was taller and thinner than it actually was, yet they were the most dissatis®ed with their body dimensions. The subjects with an Ideal Body Image very different from the current sociocultural standards showed the lowest level of Body Dissatisfaction.

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Body Size Perception and Dissatisfaction in Female Subjects of Different Ages

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Body-Size Estimation in Eating Disorders Using Video Distortion on a Lif e-Size Screen

Body-Size Estimation in Eating Disorders Using Video Distortion on a Lif e-Size Screen

Associations between Body Weight, Psychiatric Disorders and Body Image in Female Adolescents

Body image assessed by a video distortion technique: the relationship between ideal and perceived body image and body dissatisfaction

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