Gledhill, L.J., George, H.R. and Tovee, M.J. (2019) Perceptual Not Attitudinal Factors Predict the Accuracy of Estimating Other Women’s Bodies in Both Women With Anorexia Nervosa and Controls. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 . p. 997. ISSN 1664-1078
Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00997
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Abstract
Disturbance in how one’s body shape and size is experienced, usually including overestimation of one’s own body size, is a core feature of the diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa (AN). Is this over-estimation specific to women with AN’s judgments of their own body? Or is it just a general feature of their judgments about all bodies? If the latter, it would be consistent with a general error in the perception of body size potentially linked to the use of a different set of visual cues for judging body size. If the former, then this suggests that the over-estimation of own body size has a strong attitudinal component and may be part of the psycho-pathology of their condition. To test this hypothesis, 20 women with AN and 80 control observers estimated the body size of 46 women. The results show a strong effect of perceptual factors in estimating body size for both controls and women with AN. This result is consistent with size over-estimation
of own body in AN having a strong attitudinal basis and being a core feature of the psycho-pathology of the condition.
Keywords: | anorexia nervosa, body size over-estimation, body mass index, eating disorders, contraction bias |
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Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C840 Clinical Psychology C Biological Sciences > C841 Health Psychology C Biological Sciences > C850 Cognitive Psychology C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology C Biological Sciences > C830 Experimental Psychology |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Psychology |
ID Code: | 35874 |
Deposited On: | 09 May 2019 09:07 |
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