Singh D
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 78712.
Int J Eat Disord. 1994 Nov;16(3):283-8. doi: 10.1002/1098-108x(199411)16:3<283::aid-eat2260160309>3.0.co;2-q.
Interrelationships of female body fat distribution as measured by the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), overall body size, perceived attractiveness, youthfulness, health, and need to lose weight were investigated. Drawings showing thin females with high WHRs and heavier females with low WHRs were presented to college-age women with low and high scores on the Restrained Eating Scale (Herman & Polivy. [1980]. Obesity [pp. 208-225]. Philadelphia: Saunders) and men who ranked figures for various attributes. Female subjects, regardless of their eating style, as well as male subjects, judged heavier female target figures with low WHRs as more attractive and healthier than thinner figures with higher WHRs. The rankings for youthfulness and need to lose weight were not systematically affected by the size of the WHR. Female subjects perceived heavier female target figures with low WHR to represent ideal female figures. Female subjects with a restrained eating style felt their own body was not similar to idealized female figures and expressed unhappiness with their body shape; this was not true of unrestrained eaters. It is proposed that female attractiveness and ideal female shape may be more influenced by WHR than overall body size.
研究了通过腰臀比（WHR）测量的女性身体脂肪分布、总体体型、感知吸引力、年轻程度、健康状况以及减肥需求之间的相互关系。向在节食量表（赫尔曼和波利维，[1980年]。《肥胖》[第208 - 225页]。费城：桑德斯）上得分低和高的大学年龄女性以及对各种属性的身材进行排名的男性展示了瘦的高WHR女性和胖的低WHR女性的画像。女性受试者，无论其饮食方式如何，以及男性受试者，都认为低WHR的较胖女性目标身材比高WHR的较瘦身材更具吸引力和更健康。年轻程度和减肥需求的排名没有受到WHR大小的系统性影响。女性受试者认为低WHR的较胖女性目标身材代表理想女性身材。有节食饮食习惯的女性受试者觉得自己的身材与理想化的女性身材不同，并对自己的体型表示不满；无节制饮食者则并非如此。有人提出，女性的吸引力和理想女性体型可能受WHR的影响比总体体型更大。
