Body image at the trunk: An investigation into externally referenced width perception and picture mapping.

Autor: Pratt S; School of Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia., Wand BM; School of Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia., Hince DA; Institute for Health Research, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia., Travers MJ; School of Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia., Schneider L; School of Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia., Kelly S; School of Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia., Gibson W; School of Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Perception [Perception] 2024 Oct; Vol. 53 (10), pp. 688-703. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 01.
DOI: 10.1177/03010066241263052
Abstrakt: Body image is a conscious representation of the body, encompassing how our body feels to us. Body image can be measured in a variety of ways, including metric and depictive measures. This study sought to assess body image at the trunk by investigating, and comparing, a metric and depictive measure. Sixty-nine healthy participants estimated their thorax, waist, and hip width by externally referencing mechanical calipers. Participants were also asked to select the true image of their trunk from a random display of nine images containing the true image and incrementally shrunken or enlarged images. Participants demonstrated evidence of thorax and waist width overestimation in the width perception task, with no evidence for hip misestimation. For the picture mapping task, the majority of participants were inaccurate. In participants who were inaccurate, approximately equal proportions underestimated and overestimated their trunk width. The two tasks were found to be independent of each other. Distortions, or inaccuracies, were apparent in a metric measure, and inaccuracies also present in a depictive measure, of body image at the trunk for healthy participants. An overestimation bias was apparent in the metric, but not depictive, task. No relationship was found between tasks..
Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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