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Appearance comparison in individuals with body dysmorphic disorder and controls [PDF]

Body Image, 2015
Research investigating appearance comparison in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) remains very limited, despite the fact that this is one of the most commonly observed behaviors in individuals with the disorder. The present study investigated the self-reported extent and nature of appearance comparison in 35 BDD participants relative to 45 controls using ...
Anson, Martin, Veale, David, Miles, Sarah   +2 more
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Evaluation of the Scales for Social Comparison of Appearance and Social Comparison of Well-Being

Journal of Personality Assessment
People constantly compare their appearance and well-being to that of other individuals. However, a measure of social comparison of well-being is lacking and existing appearance-related social comparison assessment is limited to comparison tendency using predefined social situations.
Morina, Nexhmedin, Meyer, Thomas, McCarthy, Peter A., Hoppen, Thole H., Schlechter, Pascal   +4 more
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Mediating effect of depression between self-esteem, physical appearance comparison and intuitive eating in adults [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The first aim of the study is to clarify the associations between intuitive eating, self-esteem, physical appearance and psychological distress; and second, to assess the mediating effect of psychological distress on the relationship between self-esteem ...
Emmanuelle Awad, Diana Malaeb, Nancy Chammas, Mirna Fawaz, Michel Soufia, Souheil Hallit, Anna Brytek-Matera, Sahar Obeid   +7 more
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Internet addiction and appearance anxiety among university students in Shanghai: upward social comparison as a mediator and autonomous participation in physical activity as a moderator [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionAppearance anxiety is increasingly common among university students in the digital era, yet the mechanisms linking internet addiction to appearance anxiety remain unclear.MethodsUsing survey data from 522 undergraduates from five universities
Xinxin Huang, Jiatian Qi, Jiatian Qi, Huiping Dou, Xi Chen, Yue Xi, Yueyi Jia, Qiaoli Xiao, Jingjing Li, Hui Qiu, Bing Liu   +10 more
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Appearance-related social media behavior and eating disorder pathology: evidence from the german social media appearance preoccupation scale in nonclinical and clinical samples [PDF]

Journal of Eating Disorders
Background Image- and video-based social media have been linked to body dissatisfaction and eating pathology, partly through increased appearance-based social comparison and self-focused attention.
Sebastian Brand, Isabelle Kappelt, Kai Kloberdanz, Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Stefanie M. Jungmann   +4 more
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Individual Identification in Facial Appearance Biometrics Based on Macroscopical Comparison

Fayixue Zazhi, 2022
Individual identification is one of the research hotspots in the practice of forensic science， and the judgment is usually built on the comparison of the unique biological characteristics of the individual， such as fingerprints， iris and DNA.
HUO De-min, MO Wei-wei, ZHAO Fei-ming, ZHOU Zi-hao, DU Meng, ZHENG Ji-long, MA Kai-jun   +6 more
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Appearance-based indoor localization: A comparison of patch descriptor performance [PDF]

Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015
Vision is one of the most important of the senses, and humans use it extensively during navigation. We evaluated different types of image and video frame descriptors that could be used to determine distinctive visual landmarks for localizing a person based on what is seen by a camera that they carry.
Jose Rivera-Rubio, Ioannis Alexiou, Anil A. Bharath   +2 more
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Assessment of paint appearance quality in the automotive industry [PDF]

, 2000
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.In the modem automotive industry, more and more manufacturers recognise that vehicle paint appearance makes an important contribution to customer ...
Kang, Hai-zhuang
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The development and validation of the Physical Appearance Comparison Scale-3 (PACS-3). [PDF]

Psychol Assess, 2018
Appearance comparison processes are implicated in the development of body-image disturbance and disordered eating. The Physical Appearance Comparison Scale—Revised (PACS−R) assesses the simple frequency of appearance comparisons; however, research has ...
Schaefer LM, Thompson JK.
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Measuring appearance-related comparisons: Validation of the Comparison Standards Scale for Appearance

Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2022
Abstract Background Humans constantly compare their attributes to different reference frames. According to the theoretical framework of the general comparative-processing model, such comparisons may be perceived as aversive (i.e., appraised as threatening the motives of the comparer) or appetitive (i.e., appraised as consonant with, or ...
Nexhmedin Morina, Peter McCarthy, Thomas Meyer, Pascal Schlechter   +3 more
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