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Body Size Estimation and Body Dissatisfaction in Eating Disorder Patients and Normal Controls by Fernando Fernández; Michel Probst; Rolf Meerman; Walter Vandereycken is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
In this study comparing 41 eating disorder patients and 34 female controls, the video distortion technique was used to test the accuracy of body size estimation and to assess the ideal body image. No difference was found in the estimation of actual body sizes, although the accuracy of estimation was quite variable in both bulimics and anorexics. With regard to the ideal body image,significant differences were found: All bulimics and 92.6% of the controls wished to be thinner versus 42.9% of the anorexics (23.8% wished to be larger). Looking at subjective body experience, as measured with a selfreport questionnaire (Body Attitudes Test), body dissatisfaction appeared to be negatively correlated with the ideal body image but not with the estimation of actual body sizes.
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- Author
- Fernando Fernández; Michel Probst; Rolf Meerman; Walter Vandereycken
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0276-3478)
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)