ArticlePloS one2022
Two components of body-image disturbance are differentially associated with distinct eating disorder characteristics in healthy young women.
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- Body Image Disturbance and Body Dissatisfaction in Sisters of Adolescent Girls with Anorexia Nervosa: A Narrative Review and a Preliminary Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Body image dissatisfaction among adolescents residing in Kathmandu Metropolitan City: a community-based cross-sectional study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The Body as a Battlefield: Identity Development and Psychosomatic Expression in Eating Disorders Across Childhood and Adolescence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Quantifying body size estimation accuracy and body dissatisfaction in body dysmorphic disorder using a digital avatar.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2024Article
- Reduced body-image disturbance by body-image interventions is associated with neural-response changes in visual and social processing regions: a preliminary study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association of Social Networking Sites Use with Actual and Ideal Body Shapes, and Eating Behaviors in Healthy Young Japanese Women.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Sociodemographic Variables and Body Mass Index Associated with the Risk of Eating Disorders in Spanish University Students.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Shifting the Focus: A Pilot Study on the Effects of Positive Body Exposure on Body Satisfaction, Body Attitude, Eating Pathology and Depressive Symptoms in Female Patients with Eating Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Body-image disturbance comprises two components. The first is perceptual in nature, and is measured by a discrepancy between one's actual body and perceived self-image ("perceived-actual discrepancy"). The other component is affective, and is measured by a discrepancy between one's perceived self-image and ideal body image ("perceived-ideal discrepancy"). The present study evaluated the relationships between body-image disturbance and characteristics of eating disorders such as symptoms and related personality traits. In a psychophysiological experiment, female university students (mean ± SD age = 21.0 ± 1.38 years) were presented with silhouette images of their own bodies that were distorted in terms of width. The participants were asked whether each silhouette image was more overweight than their actual or ideal body images. Eating-disorder characteristics were assessed using six factors from the Japanese version of the Eating Disorder Inventory 2 (EDI2). We found that perceived-actual discrepancies correlated with negative self-evaluation (i.e., factor 3 of the EDI2), whereas perceived-ideal discrepancies correlated with dissatisfaction with one's own body (i.e., factor 2 of EDI2). These results imply that distinct psychological mechanisms underlie the two components of body-image disturbance.
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