1983
DOI: 10.1002/1098-108x(198322)2:4<91::aid-eat2260020416>3.0.co;2-z
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Experimental investigation of disturbances in body image estimation in anorexia nervosa patients, and ballet and gymnastics pupils

Abstract: Three different methods were used to study perceptual disorders of body image in 36 anorexia nervosa patients and 35 age‐matched ballet/gymnastics pupils: (1) a video distortion of width of head and whole body of the subject; (2) a modification of the Image Marking Procedure first described by Askevold (1975); and (3) the Body Image Screening Scale, a paper‐pencil version (not in a scale of 1:1, but diminished) of (2) (Fichter & Meermann, 1981). Concerning the video task (1), both groups under investigation sh… Show more

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“…The findings indicate that the measures produced acceptably reliable results. On the image marking procedure (Strober, Goldenberg, Green, & Saxon, 1979) and the optical distortion technique (Meerman, 1983;Freeman, et al, 1985), the intercorrelations between the estimations of different body parts or profiles are also high. A few studies have attempted to determine the convergent or construct validity of the different measures of body image.…”
Section: Overview Of Body Image Studies In the Eating Disorderssupporting
confidence: 71%
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“…The findings indicate that the measures produced acceptably reliable results. On the image marking procedure (Strober, Goldenberg, Green, & Saxon, 1979) and the optical distortion technique (Meerman, 1983;Freeman, et al, 1985), the intercorrelations between the estimations of different body parts or profiles are also high. A few studies have attempted to determine the convergent or construct validity of the different measures of body image.…”
Section: Overview Of Body Image Studies In the Eating Disorderssupporting
confidence: 71%
“…Curiously, the authors did not attempt to reconcile their findings with their earlier, contradictory ones (Dolce, et al, 1987). Although Meerman (1983) stated that his methods "deliver information about body image disturbance and not about a more general perceptual disorder," actual data to support his claim were lacking in his report, as he did not provide correlational data on estimates of the body and the dummy. Furthermore, in his study, the inaccuracy in estimating the size of the body and of the dummy in both patients and controls occurred in the same direction (i.e., underestimation) on image distortion, whereas on image marking they seemed to have both occurred in the opposite direction (i.e., overestimation).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Allebeck, Hallberg, and Espmark (1976) have used an adjustable television image, while Garfinkel and Garner (1982, p. 138) relied on self-report data. But it no longer seems fruitful to add to this body of literature which shows that although some patients with anorexia nervosa overestimate their body size (Slade & Russell, 1973;Askevold, 1975), others underestimate it (Garner, Garfinkel, Stancer, & Moldofsky, 1976;Garfinkel, Moldofsky, Garner, Stancer, & Coscina, 1978) and that inaccurate body size estimations are made by nonpatient girls and women (Crisp & Kalucy, 1974;Strober, Goldberg, Green, & Saxon, 1979;Ben-Tovim, Whitehead, & Crisp, 1979;Klesges, 1983;Meerman, 1983). Progress can only be made by clarifying the processes involved in these judgements.…”
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confidence: 99%