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Adolescent Perceptions of Body Weight and Weight Satisfaction

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995
Analysis of perception of body weight and weight satisfaction among 1,915 adolescents showed that a perception of being too fat was particularly dissatisfying for girls while a perception of being much too thin was most dissatisfying for boys.
R M, Page, O, Allen
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Weight Perceptions in Children

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1995
Abstract Disturbed body image perceptions and eating attitudes have been well documented in adults and adolescents. Few studies have examined young children for disordered eating attitudes and body images. Six hundred and twenty-eight fifth and sixth graders from five schools in Northeastern Pennsylvania completed a Body Figure Preference ...
T.L. Eastwood, A. Levine, G. Cabral
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Variability in Weight Perception

Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1968
Abstract The subjects (30 men and 30 women) were tested twice, in testing periods separated by one week, onr ability to perceive weights from 3.25 to 13.75 lb. using memory and simultaneous equality techniques. Fractionation technique for the same subjects employed maximal and 1/2 maximal pull.
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Virtual Weight Illusion: Weight Perception of Virtual Objects Using Weight Illusions

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
This study investigated whether weight illusions in virtual reality (VR) without haptic feedback occur as in the real world. In the experiment, we set up three scenarios to cause three different weight illusions in VR: the size–weight illusion (smaller objects look lighter but feel heavier than larger ones), brightness–weight illusion (brighter objects
Akihiro Maehigashi   +5 more
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Female college student weight perception discordance

Journal of American College Health, 2019
Examine the prevalence of body weight perception discordance, and its relationship with physical activity and mental health among college women.Data were collected from a convenience sample of female undergraduates enrolled in general education health and wellness courses at a large, northeastern United States university (n = 1607) via direct email ...
Oliver W. A. Wilson,   +6 more
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Body weight perception among Bahraini adolescents

Child: Care, Health and Development, 2004
AbstractBackground  This study examines the relationship between actual weight status and perceptions of body weight in Bahraini adolescents. The study also investigates the adolescents’ perceptions of parents’ and peers’ opinions of weight.Methods  A cross‐sectional survey of 447 Bahraini male and female adolescents aged 12–17 years was conducted ...
A M, Al-Sendi, P, Shetty, A O, Musaiger
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Heavy-heartedness biases your weight perception

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2015
Heavy-heartedness (light-heartedness), among more than two hundred metaphors related to the heart, indicates negative (positive) affects. Although these metaphors are generally understood rhetorically, this study explores whether there is any literal connection between either of these two states and one's perception of weight. Participants who recalled
Bora, Min, Incheol, Choi
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Weight perception among Italian adults, 2006–2010

European Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2014
Underweight, overweight and obesity are associated with increased mortality from several chronic diseases, including cancer. Self body weight misperceptions affect weight control. We monitored weight perception in Italy on a total of 14 135 individuals (6834 men, 7301 women), representative of the Italian adult population with available information on ...
A. Odone   +7 more
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