Garment sizes in perception of body size
| Autor: | Jintu Fan, Fu Liu, Edward Newton, Lilian Lau |
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Male Visual perception Chinese men media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Body size 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Perception 0502 economics and business Statistics Body Image Humans Size Perception media_common 05 social sciences 030229 sport sciences Self Concept Sensory Systems Visual Perception Body Constitution 050211 marketing sense organs Psychology Social psychology Obese build Large size |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | This paper reports an experimental investigation of the effect of garment size on perceived body size. The perceived body sizes of three Chinese men (thin, medium, and obese build) wearing different sizes of white T-shirts were assessed using Thompson and Gray's 1995 Nine-figural Scale in 1 (thinnest) to 9 (obese) grade and a newly-proposed method. Within the limit of commercially available T-shirt sizes, for thin and medium persons, perceived body sizes are bigger when wearing T-shirts of larger sizes. For an obese person, however, wearing a large size T-shirt tends to make him look thinner. The study also showed that the newly proposed comparative method is more reliable in comparing body size perception but without measuring the magnitude of the change in body-size grade. The figural scale and the comparative method can be complementary. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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