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Parents' Perceptions of Their Child's Weight and Health

Pediatrics, 2006
OBJECTIVE. This study explored parents' perceptions about their child's appearance and health and evaluated a tool to determine parents' visual perception of their child's weight.METHODS. Parents of children aged 2 to 17 years were surveyed concerning their child's appearance and health and opinions about childhood overweight.
Kathryn C, Eckstein, Laura M, Mikhail, Adolfo J, Ariza, J Scott, Thomson, Scott C, Millard, Helen J, Binns   +5 more
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Phonetic cue weighting in perception and production

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2019
AbstractSpeech sound contrasts differ along multiple phonetic dimensions. During speech perception, listeners must decide which cues are relevant, and determine the relative importance of each cue, while also integrating other, signal‐external cues.
Jessamyn Schertz, Emily J. Clare
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Maternal Perceptions of Weight Status of Children

Pediatrics, 2003
Objective. We quantified maternal misclassification of child weight status and examined determinants associated with maternal perceptions of child weight status. Methods. Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988–1994) were used.
L Michele, Maynard, Deborah A, Galuska, Heidi M, Blanck, Mary K, Serdula   +3 more
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Body weight: The male and female perception

Sozial- und Präventivmedizin SPM, 2000
The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between actual body weight, characterization of one's weight, and satisfaction with it. 246 students of medicine in the third (clinical) stage of their studies at the University of Vienna responded to a questionnaire asking about their weight and attitudes regarding their personal body weight.
I, Kiefer, B, Leitner, R, Bauer, A, Rieder   +3 more
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Etiology of Nigerian Adolescents' Perception of Their Weight

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1989
A cultural expectation of society is the importance associated with being physically attractive (1). In Nigeria, physical attractiveness is defined by Yoruba adolescents as being thin, whereas obesity is viewed negatively and stereotyped as greedy, selfish, lazy and dumb (2).
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Adolescents' perception of body weight and parents' weight for height status

Journal of Adolescent Health, 1994
To obtain data on the relationships between weight for height status, in adolescents and their parents, and adolescents' perceptions of body image and weight-loss behavior.Weight and height were measured in both parents and adolescents from 213 families with an adolescent child aged 14-15 years who were participating in a community-based study of risk ...
P, Tienboon, I H, Rutishauser, M L, Wahlqvist   +2 more
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The effect of pleasurable emotions on weight perception

Psychological Research
Based on the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions and embodied cognition theory, this study explored the effects of two different forms of pleasure on the perception of object weight through two experiments. Experiment 1 induced pleasure by having participants watch a funny video and further investigated the effect of pleasure on weight ...
Zhaoxiang, Niu, Zeyuan, Zhang, Fangfang, Wen, Bin, Zuo   +3 more
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Associations Between Weight Perception, Unhealthy Weight Control Behavior, and Suicidal Ideation and Planning Among Korean Adolescents: A National Cross-Sectional Secondary Analysis

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2021
Ji-Su Kim, Yeji Seo
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Association of depression and obesity is mediated by weight perception

Journal of Health Psychology, 2021
Renata Gomes Paulitsch, Samuel C Dumith
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Health and Weight Perceptions of Obese Students

The Nurse Practitioner, 2003
Beverly J, Volicer, Nancy, Quattrocchi, Rose, Candelieri, Robert, Nicolosi   +3 more
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