Gustavson C R, Gustavson J C, Pumariega A J, Reinarz D E, Dameron R, Gustavson A R, Pappas T, McCaul K
Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1201.
Percept Mot Skills. 1990 Dec;71(3 Pt 1):1003-10. doi: 10.2466/pms.1990.71.3.1003.
For 179 male and female college and high school students, and 26 female eating-disordered patients body-image distortion was measured using a computer-based image-analysis of redrawn images of standardized human figures. Statistical analysis indicated that body-image distortion was the same for all groups. Body-image distortion was significantly and negatively related to weight:height ratio as a function of a simple polynomial. These results suggest this evaluation of distortion of body-image yields a quantitative measure reliably related to weight status but also suggests the technique, and possibly measurement of body-image distortion in general, may not be a valid discriminator between eating-disordered and normal persons.
