Media Influences on Body Size Estimation in Anorexia and Bulimia

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (6) ◽  
pp. 837-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Hamilton ◽  
Glenn Waller
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
Women's Fashion ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Body Size Estimation ◽  
Bulimic Women

Anorexic end bulimic women overestimate their body sizes substantially more than comparison women, but little is known about the factors that influence this overestimation. This study examined the influence of media portrayal of idealised female bodies in women's fashion magazines. Comparison women were not affected by the nature of the photographs that they saw, but eating-disordered women were - they overestimated more when they had seen the pictures of women than when they saw photographs of neutral objects.

Clinical Correlates of Body-Size Distortion

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1311-1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés J. Pumariega ◽  
Carl R. Gustavson ◽  
Joan C. Gustavson ◽  
Sandra A. Black ◽  
Andrew R. Gustavson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Size Distortion ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Linear Relationships ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Body Size Estimation

Body-size distortion has been considered a central symptom of eating disorders. We studied 35 female eating-disordered patients and 85 controls using a computer-based body-size estimation technique. We have found almost identical linear relationships between body-size distortion and weight:height ratios in both groups. In the clinical group, distortion scores were not correlated with scores on the Eating Attitudes Test or Beck Depression Inventory but were negatively correlated with body dissatisfaction as measured on the Eating Disorder Inventory. These results raise further questions about the role of body-size distortion both as a diagnostic criterion and as a complicating phenomenon in eating disorders.

scholarly journals Can blind persons accurately assess body size from the voice?

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 20160063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pisanski ◽  
Anna Oleszkiewicz ◽  
Agnieszka Sorokowska
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Vocal Tract ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Congenitally Blind ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
Body Size Estimation ◽  
Physical Height ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Voice

Vocal tract resonances provide reliable information about a speaker's body size that human listeners use for biosocial judgements as well as speech recognition. Although humans can accurately assess men's relative body size from the voice alone, how this ability is acquired remains unknown. In this study, we test the prediction that accurate voice-based size estimation is possible without prior audiovisual experience linking low frequencies to large bodies. Ninety-one healthy congenitally or early blind, late blind and sighted adults (aged 20–65) participated in the study. On the basis of vowel sounds alone, participants assessed the relative body sizes of male pairs of varying heights. Accuracy of voice-based body size assessments significantly exceeded chance and did not differ among participants who were sighted, or congenitally blind or who had lost their sight later in life. Accuracy increased significantly with relative differences in physical height between men, suggesting that both blind and sighted participants used reliable vocal cues to size (i.e. vocal tract resonances). Our findings demonstrate that prior visual experience is not necessary for accurate body size estimation. This capacity, integral to both nonverbal communication and speech perception, may be present at birth or may generalize from broader cross-modal correspondences.

Accuracy of body size estimation: Role of biopsychosocial variables

Body Image ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita P. McCabe ◽  
Lina A. Ricciardelli ◽  
Geeta Sitaram ◽  
Katherine Mikhail
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Body Size Estimation

scholarly journals An Assessment of Computer-Generated Stimuli for Use in Studies of Body Size Estimation and Bias

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Alexi ◽  
Kendra Dommisse ◽  
Dominique Cleary ◽  
Romina Palermo ◽  
Nadine Kloth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Body Size Estimation

Body-Size Estimation in Anorexia Nervosa

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Body Size ◽  
The Body ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Image Perception ◽  
Pelvic Area ◽  
Body Size Estimation ◽  
Different Parts

The aim was to explore the body-image perception of a group of 20 hospitalised anorexic patients, aged 18 to 21 years, undergoing a period of treatment. The instrument used was the Askevold nonverbal perception test as modified by Allamani and colleagues in 1978 to assess perception of the dimensions of different parts of the body by exploiting the capacity to project them into space. The four parts were the head, the thoracic area, the abdominal area, and the pelvic area. Analysis of responses indicated that anorexic patients overestimated the abdominal and the pelvic areas much more than the 20 members of the control group (50% vs 30%). The areas of the head and thorax were perceived almost in their real dimensions by the anorexic patients but were underestimated by the control group.

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