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Media Influences on Body Size Estimation in Anorexia and Bulimia

An Experimental Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kate Hamilton  and
Glenn Waller
Kate Hamilton
Affiliation:
Department of General Practice, University of Aberdeen
Glenn Waller*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Anorexic end bulimic women overestimate their body sizes substantially more than comparison women, but little is known about the factors that influence this overestimation. This study examined the influence of media portrayal of idealised female bodies in women's fashion magazines. Comparison women were not affected by the nature of the photographs that they saw, but eating-disordered women were - they overestimated more when they had seen the pictures of women than when they saw photographs of neutral objects.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 6 , June 1993 , pp. 837 - 840
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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