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Distorted body weight perception and its gender differences in middle-aged adults: population based study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Increasing interest in appearance and the growing preference for a beautiful body can lead to physical and psychological problems due to an inappropriate body image perception.
Youngshin Song, Myoungjin Kwon, Sun Ae Kim   +2 more
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Body image distortions following spinal cord injury [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Following spinal cord injury (SCI) or anaesthesia, people may continue to experience feelings of the size, shape, and posture of their body, suggesting that the conscious body image is not fully determined by immediate sensory signals.
Longo, Matthew R., Scivoletto, G., G. Scivoletto, Fuentes, C.T., M. R. Longo, C. T. Fuentes, Pazzaglia, M., PAZZAGLIA, Mariella, Haggard, P., P. Haggard   +9 more
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Prevalence, patterns, and determinants of body image dissatisfaction among female undergraduate students of University of Delhi

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Background: Body image is an essential aspect of young girls' self-definition and individual identity and is influenced by multitude of factors including cultural, social, cognitive, affective, and biological. In recent times, excessive concern about the
Abhilasha Kapoor, Madhu Kumari Upadhyay, Narinder Kumar Saini   +2 more
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The Computer Body Image Test: a procedure for the assessment of body image perception [PDF]

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 1999
AbstractThe aim of our study was to develop a procedure that combines the capabilities of body‐part estimation procedures and image distortion techniques. Distorted computerized images of the subjects are presented on a computer monitor. The whole body and body parts can be manipulated interactively. Reliability, stability and validity of the perceived
Hennighausen, Klaus, Remschmidt, Helmut
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Body image perception and body composition in early adolescents: a longitudinal study of an Italian cohort

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Adolescence is a sensitive period of life in which everyone faces physical and psychological changes. No longitudinal studies considering changes in body image perception and body composition in Italian adolescents have been carried out.
Stefania Toselli, Alessia Grigoletto, Luciana Zaccagni, Natascia Rinaldo, Georgian Badicu, Wilhelm Robert Grosz, Francesco Campa   +6 more
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Differences in body image perception according to gender.

, 2023
Differences in body image perception according to gender.
Jieun Shin (103647), Sungjung Kwak (15203634)   +1 more
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Gender and body image [PDF]

, 2009
That gender has a considerable impact on people’s body image may seem obvious based on the considerable attention paid to women’s and men’s bodies in popular culture (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1999; Wolf, 1991)
J. Kevin Thompson, Thompson, Joel K., Thompson, J. Kevin, Rachel M. Calogero, Calogero, Rachel M.   +4 more
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Owning an overweight or underweight body: distinguishing the physical, experienced and virtual body [PDF]

, 2014
Our bodies are the most intimately familiar objects we encounter in our perceptual environment. Virtual reality provides a unique method to allow us to experience having a very different body from our own, thereby providing a valuable method to explore ...
Linkenauger Sally A., Mohler, B., Linkenauger, Sally, Wong, H., Piryankova Ivelina V., Bülthoff Heinrich H., Sally A Linkenauger, Ivelina V Piryankova, Piryankova, Iveline, Catherine Stinson, Stinson, C., Heinrich H Bülthoff, Bulthoff, H.H., Piryankova, I.V., Mohler, B.J., Wong, Hong Yu, Linkenauger, S.A., Mohler Betty J., Bülthoff, H., Longo, M., Longo, Matthew, Longo, Matthew R., Wong Hong Yu, Piryankova, I., Betty J Mohler, Stinson, Catherine, Mohler, B. J., Hong Yu Wong, Matthew R Longo, Longo Matthew R., Linkenauger, S., Buelthoff, H. H., Stinson Catherine, Wong, H.Y.   +33 more
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Perceptions of Body Image of Women with Blindness

Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, 2023
Introduction: Body dissatisfaction is a general concern from teenage years onwards, and is especially characteristic in the population of young women all over the world. Objectives: This qualitative research sought to find answers to how young (aged 18-30) women with congenital or acquired blindness perceive their body image (BI), and how they get ...
Csernák, Edina, Gombás, Judit
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Visual adaptation to thin and fat bodies transfers across identity [PDF]

, 2012
Visual perception is highly variable and can be influenced by the surrounding world. Previous research has revealed that body perception can be biased due to adaptation to thin or fat body shapes.
Dennis Hummel, Harald M Mohr, Ralph Grabhorn, Hummel, Dennis, Harald M. Mohr, Untch, Karl-Heinz, Anne K. Rudolf, Rudolf, Anne, Mohr, Harald M., Anne K Rudolf, Grabhorn, Ralph, Karl-Heinz Untch, Rudolf Anne K., Hummel Dennis, Untch Karl-Heinz, Grabhorn Ralph, Mohr Harald M.   +16 more
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