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Body size estimation and body dissatisfaction in eating disorder patients and normal controls

✍ Scribed by Fernández, Fernando ;Probst, Michel ;Meerman, Rolf ;Vandereycken, Walter

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
281 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0276-3478

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✦ Synopsis

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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