Frontiers in Psychology | |
Perceptual Not Attitudinal Factors Predict the Accuracy of Estimating Other Women’s Bodies in Both Women With Anorexia Nervosa and Controls | |
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Lucinda J. Gledhill1  Hannah R. George2  Martin J. Tovée3  | |
[1] Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, United Kingdom;Young People and Family Service (National Deaf CAMHS), United Kingdom;School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom | |
关键词: anorexia nervosa; body size over-estimation; body mass index; eating disorders; contraction bias; | |
DOI : 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00997 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Frontiers | |
【 摘 要 】
Disturbance in how one’s body shape and size is experienced, usually including over-estimation of one’s own body size, is a core feature of the diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa (AN). Is this over-estimation specific to women with AN’s judgments of their own body? Or is it just a general feature of their judgments about all bodies? If the latter, it would be consistent with a general error in the perception of body size potentially linked to the use of a different set of visual cues for judging body size. If the former, then this suggests that the over-estimation of own body size has a strong attitudinal component and may be part of the psycho-pathology of their condition. To test this hypothesis, 20 women with AN and 80 control observers estimated the body size of 46 women. The results show a strong effect of perceptual factors in estimating body size for both controls and women with AN. This result is consistent with size over-estimation of own body in AN having a strong attitudinal basis and being a core feature of the psycho-pathology of the condition.
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