Factorial Validity and Cross-Validation of the Body Self-Image Questionnaire (Short Form) in Young Adults

Objectives. This empirical study investigated the effect of a moderate aerobic exercise programme on the body self-image of a sample of women (n=49) in middle adulthood with a mean age of 54.2 years. Methods. The participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group (n=24) and a control group (n=25). The experimental group participated in a (guided) moderate aerobics programme over six weeks, while the control group participated in a sedentary (guided) meditation programme. The participants in both groups were assessed for body self-image using the nine factors defined in the Body Self-Image Questionnaire (BSIQ) of Rowe (2000). The BSIQ comprises both perceptual-cognitive and affective-attitudinal factors. Results. The results indicated that there was an overall positive shift in the perceptual-cognitive factors of the body self-image in the exercise group, namely for overall appearance evaluation, health fitness evaluation and fatness evaluation. Although no significant shifts were found in all the affective-attitudinal factors of the participants, there was a significant change in the negative affect of the participants. Conclusion. The results suggest that such a programme has a positive influence on the way these women think and feel about their bodies. No significant changes were found in the body selfimage of the control group. These findings suggest the positive effect of a (guided) aerobic exercise programme in improving the body self-image of women in middle adulthood.SAJSM, vol 23 No. 4 2011

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The association between chronic bullying victimization with weight status and body self-image: a cross-national study in 39 countries

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.4330 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. e4330 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Qiguo Lian ◽

Qiru Su ◽

Ruili Li ◽

Frank J. Elgar ◽

Zhihao Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Weight Status ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

School Bullying ◽

The Body ◽

National Study ◽

Bullying Victimization ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Self Image ◽

Perceived Weight ◽

Body Self

Background Childhood obesity and school bullying are pervasive public health issues and known to co-occur in adolescents. However, the association between underweight or thinness and chronic bullying victimization is unclear. The current study examined whether chronic bullying victimization is associated with weight status and body self-image. Methods A school-based, cross-sectional study in 39 North American and European countries and regions was conducted. A total of 213,595 adolescents aged 11, 13, and 15 years were surveyed in 2009/10. Chronic bullying victimization was identified using the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire. Weight status was determined using self-reported height and weight and the body mass index (BMI), and body self-image was based on perceived weight. We tested associations between underweight and bullying victimization using three-level logistic regression models. Results Of the 213,595 adolescents investigated, 11.28% adolescents reported chronic bullying victimization, 14.80% were classified as overweight/obese according to age- and sex-specific BMI criteria, 12.97% were underweight, and 28.36% considered themselves a little bit fat or too fat, 14.57% were too thin. Bullying victimization was less common in older adolescent boys and girls. Weight status was associated with chronic bullying victimization (adjusted ORunderweight = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.05–1.16, p = 0.002; adjusted ORoverweight = 1.40, 95% CI = 1.32–1.49, p < 0.0001; adjusted ORobese = 1.91, 95% CI = 1.71–2.14, p < 0.0001). Body self-image also related to chronic bullying victimization (adjusted ORtoo thin = 1.42, 95% CI = 1.36–1.49, p < 0.0001; adjusted ORa little bit fat = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.48–1.61, p < 0.0001; adjusted ORtoo fat = 3.30, 95% CI = 2.96–3.68, p < 0.0001). Conclusion Both perceived weight and self-rated overweight are associated with chronic bullying victimization. Both overweight and underweight children are at risk of being chronically bullied.

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Repercussions of Social Networks on Their Users’ Body Image: Integrative Review

Psicologia Teoria e Pesquisa ◽

10.1590/0102.3772e36510 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

Author(s):

Ana Flávia de Sousa Silva ◽

Camila Cremonezi Japur ◽

Fernanda Rodrigues de Oliveira Penaforte

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Body Image ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The Body ◽

Integrative Review ◽

Review Of Literature ◽

Body Type ◽

Self Image ◽

Body Self

Abstract This integrative review of literature followed the PICO strategy to investigate the repercussions of the use of social networks on the body image of their users. PubMed, LILACS, PsycINFO and SciELO databases were included as well as articles published between January 2006 and February 2019. Thirty-three articles were analyzed, which compose the corpus of this review. The studies revealed that social networks have a predominantly negative repercussion on the body self-image of their users, increasing levels of body dissatisfaction, also having a negative impact on mood and self-esteem. Added to this, social networks influenced the body type that users would like to have, translated by the lean body profile, considered a model of beauty.

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CONSTRICTION OF BODY IMAGE IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.29.3.438 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 438-441

Author(s):

Morris Green ◽

Eugene E. Levitt

Keyword(s):

Congenital Heart Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Emotionally Disturbed ◽

Congenital Heart ◽

The Body ◽

Normal Children ◽

Self Image ◽

Human Figure ◽

Body Self ◽

Normal Controls

The body self-image was determined by means of the drawing of the human figure in a group of children with congenital heart disease, in normal controls and in children who were emotionally disturbed or intellectually retarded The data and analyses indicate that children with congenital heart disease tend to depict them selves graphically smaller than do normal children. It may therefore be inferred that children with congenital heart disease, in general, have a constricted view of their bodies.

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Overweight, Thinness, Body Self-Image and Eating Strategies of 2,121 Italian Teenagers.

The Scientific World JOURNAL ◽

10.1100/tsw.2005.96 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 812-819 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Roberta Guarino ◽

Alberto Pellai ◽

Luca Bassoli ◽

Mario Cozzi ◽

Maria Angela Di Sanzo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

The Body ◽

Eating Behaviours ◽

Image Perception ◽

Education Programs ◽

Body Images ◽

Actual Weight ◽

Self Image ◽

Unhealthy Eating ◽

Body Self

This study describes the prevalence rate of overweight and thinness in a population of teens living in two different areas of Italy and explores the body self-image perception and unhealthy eating behaviours and strategies to lose weight. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 2,121 teenage students (1,084 males; 1,037 females). Results showed that teen females and males build and perceive their body images in very different ways. Most of the overall sample perceived their weight as normal, while a relevant 31.6% defined themselves as overweight and another 4.4% as heavily overweight. Analysis based on BMI (calculated through self-referred weight and height) showed that only 9.2% of our sample could be considered overweight and 1,7% obese. Most of female teen students (485 out of 1,037) were trying to lose weight, demonstrating that strategies to lose weight were undertaken also by girls perceiving themsleves as normal in relation to body weight; 46.8% girls were using strategies to lose weight compared with 21.9% boys. These strategies included very problematic behaviours like self-induced vomiting (3.3% F vs. 1.7% M) and dieting pills (2.8% F vs. 1.5% M) undertaken along with more usual thinning strategies like dieting and exercising. Girls were more prone than boys to exercise as a way to lose weight (41% vs. 31.7%). This study showed that there is a deep gap between actual weight and perceived body-image and weight. This study is one of the first of this kind in Italy and calls for primary prevention and health education programs aimed at improving teen body-image as a strategy to reduce the eating disorder epidemics spreading among young people.

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Relationship of Overweight and Obesity with Body Self-Image Dissatisfaction in Urban Mediterranean Adolescents

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18157770 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (15) ◽

pp. 7770

Author(s):

Dolores Escrivá ◽

Esther Moreno-Latorre ◽

Jordi Caplliure-Llopis ◽

Inmaculada Benet ◽

Carlos Barrios

Keyword(s):

Weight Status ◽

Task Force ◽

Late Adolescence ◽

Overweight And Obesity ◽

The Body ◽

Self Image ◽

Adolescence Period ◽

Body Self ◽

Low Prevalence ◽

Overweight Prevalence

The aim of this study was to analyze whether weight status has a relationship with the prevalence of body self-image dissatisfaction in Mediterranean urban teenagers. A series of 809 adolescents aged 11 to 17 years underwent anthropometric measurements according to ISAK protocols and completed the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). The overall overweight prevalence according to International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria was 11.5%, and 2.7% for obesity. Girls showed higher overweight prevalence than boys (18.4% vs. 12.9%; p < 0.05). At the late adolescence period (16–17 y), obesity was observed in the boys but not in the girls (8.7% vs. 0%; p < 0.01). There was a relative low prevalence of body image (BI) dissatisfaction among participants (boys 17.3%; girls 22.7%). In the late adolescence period, the girls were more often classified as being dissatisfied (31%). A weak correlation between the BSQ scores and all the anthropometric variables related to the adiposity profile was detected only in the boys. A logistic regression confirmed that female adolescents and the late pubertal period had a significant association with body dissatisfaction, regardless of their weight status. As BI are not related to weight status measured by body mass index (BMI) percentiles, other factors beyond anthropometry deserve further research to explain BI concerns specifically in girls.

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