ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Body Size Estimation from Early to Middle Childhood: Stability of Underestimation, BMI, and Gender Effects.
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- Shifting goalposts: widening discrepancies between girls' actual and ideal bodies predict disordered eating from preadolescence to adulthood.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Perceived body size across sex and weight categories and its association with body size dissatisfaction: a cross-sectional study among early primary school children in Norway.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Association between BMI and Body Weight Perception among Children in Turkey: A Cross-Sectional Study.Iranian journal of public health · 2023Article
- Body-Size Misperception among Overweight Children and Adolescents in Greece: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Food Habits and Lifestyle in Hyperphenylalaninemia Patients: Should These Be Monitored?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Growing into your hand: the developmental trajectory of the body model.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Overestimation of body weight and its association with parental, teacher and peer support: evidence from the Israeli Health Behaviours in Schools survey.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Use of a real-life practical context changes the relationship between implicit body representations and real body measurements.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Perceived Match Between Observed and Own Bodies, but Not Its Accuracy, Is Influenced by Movement Dynamics and Clothing Cues.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Perceived match between own and observed models' bodies: influence of face, viewpoints, and body size.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Individuals who are overweight are more likely to underestimate their body size than those who are normal weight, and overweight underestimators are less likely to engage in weight loss efforts. Underestimation of body size might represent a barrier to prevention and treatment of overweight; thus insight in how underestimation of body size develops and tracks through the childhood years is needed. The aim of the present study was therefore to examine stability in children's underestimation of body size, exploring predictors of underestimation over time. The prospective path from underestimation to BMI was also tested. In a Norwegian cohort of 6 year olds, followed up at ages 8 and 10 (analysis sample:
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