The development and validation of the body shape questionnaire

Cooper, Peter; Taylor, Melanie J.; Cooper, Zafra; Fairbum, Christopher G.

doi:10.1002/1098-108x(198707)6:4<485::aid-eat2260060405>3.0.co;2-o

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“…The BSQ has been shown to have good concurrent and discriminative validity (Cooper, 1986). The Cronbach alpha value for the BSQ in the current study was 0.92.…”

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confidence: 49%

Emotions mediate the relationship between autistic traits and disordered eating: A new autistic-emotional model for eating pathology

Mansour

Rozenblat

Fuller‐Tyszkiewicz

et al. 2016

Psychiatry Research

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“…The BSQ has been shown to have good concurrent and discriminative validity (Cooper, 1986). The Cronbach alpha value for the BSQ in the current study was 0.92.…”

Section: Body Shape Questionnaire [Bsq; (Evans and Dolan 1993)]mentioning

confidence: 49%

Emotions mediate the relationship between autistic traits and disordered eating: A new autistic-emotional model for eating pathology

Mansour

Rozenblat

Fuller‐Tyszkiewicz

et al. 2016

Psychiatry Research

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“…To further detect subclinical body image and eating disorders, at the end of the experiment, participants filled four questionnaires: 1) the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2, 11 scales; Garner, Olmstead, & Polivy, 1983) to investigate the psychological and behavioral characteristics associated with ED; 2) the Body Attitude Test (BAT-20, 4 scales; Probst et al, 1995) to measure the individual's subjective body experience and attitudes towards one's own 8 body; 3) the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-34, 1 scale; Cooper et al, 1987) to assess the degree of body dissatisfaction and 4) the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3; 4 scales; Stefanile et al, 2011) to measure multiple aspects of societal influence as the degree of mass media internalization of the models. Furthermore, we estimated participants' BMI from self-report measures of weight (Kg) and height (cm).…”

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Gender differences in the neural underpinning of perceiving and appreciating the beauty of the body

Cazzato

Mele

Urgesi

2014

Behavioural Brain Research

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Abstract:Although previous studies have suggested a certain degree of right hemisphere dominance for the response of extrastriate body area (EBA) during body perception, recent evidence suggests that this functional lateralization may differ between men and women. It is unknown, however, whether and how gender differences in body perception affect appreciating the beauty of the body conspecifics. Here, we applied five 10-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) pulses over left and right EBA and over the vertex to investigate the contribution of visual body representations in the two hemispheres on esthetic body perception. Female and male healthy volunteers were requested to judge how much they liked opposite-and same-gender virtual model bodies or to judge their weight, thus allowing us to compare the effects of right-and left-EBA rTMS on esthetic (liking) and perceptual (weight) judgments of human bodies. The analysis of the esthetic judgments provided by women revealed that right-EBA rTMS increased the liking judgments of opposite-vs. same-gender models, as compared to both vertex and left EBA stimulation.Conversely, in men the liking judgments of opposite-gender models decreased after virtual disruption of both right and left EBA as compared to vertex stimulation. Crucially, no significant effect was found for the perceptual task, showing that left-and right-EBA rTMS did not affect weight perception. Our results provide evidence of gender difference in the hemispheric asymmetry of EBA in the esthetic processing of human bodies, with women showing stronger right hemisphere dominance in comparison with men.

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“…The participants also completed a battery of self-administered questionnaires for the assessment of binge eating (Binge Eating ScaleFBES), 22 body image dissatisfaction and concern about body shape (Body Shape QuestionnaireFBSQ), 23 depression (Beck Depression InventoryFBDI), 24 and obesity-specific quality of life (Impact of Weight on Quality of LifeFIWQOL). 25 BDI scores were categorized for descriptive presentation, with the following cut points: normal, 0-9; mild depressive symptoms, 10-15; moderate depressive symptoms, 16-22; and severe depressive symptoms, 23-63.…”

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Night eating syndrome in class II–III obesity: metabolic and psychopathological features

2009

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Objective: To investigate the relationship of metabolic disorders and psychological features with the night eating syndrome (NES) in individuals with moderate-to-severe obesity. Design: Cross-sectional observation. Subjects: A total of 266 consecutive participants with class II-III obesity, entering an inpatient weight loss program. Measurements: Participants who reported consuming either a large amount of their caloric intake after the evening meal (roughly self-assessed as X25% of daily calories) or the presence of nocturnal feeding at the Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ) (N ¼ 49) were interviewed by the Night Eating Syndrome History and Inventory (NESHI). Assessment also included the clinical/ biochemical parameters of the metabolic syndrome and several questionnaires of psychopathology. NES was diagnosed by NESHI criteria (evening hyperphagia (X25% of daily food intake after the evening meal) and/or waking at night to eat at least three times a week) in the last 3 months. Results: Twenty-seven participants (10.1%) met NESHI criteria. Differences were not observed between participants with and without NES as to age, body mass index (BMI), prevalence of metabolic syndrome, Binge Eating Scale and Body Shape Questionnaire. NES participants had significantly higher scores of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Impact of Weight on Quality of Life (IWQOL). Among NES cases, the BDI score was indicative of moderate depression in 18.5% of cases and of severe depression in 44.4%. Logistic regression analysis, adjusted for confounders, identified the BDI score as the only variable significantly associated with the diagnosis of NES. Conclusion: Diagnosing NES does not help identify obese individuals with specific medical complications, but indicates more severe psychological distress and depression.

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The development and validation of the body shape questionnaire

Cited by 1,804 publications

References 13 publications

Emotions mediate the relationship between autistic traits and disordered eating: A new autistic-emotional model for eating pathology

Emotions mediate the relationship between autistic traits and disordered eating: A new autistic-emotional model for eating pathology

Gender differences in the neural underpinning of perceiving and appreciating the beauty of the body

Night eating syndrome in class II–III obesity: metabolic and psychopathological features

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