Body-image dissatisfaction among American male and female college students: a computer-based graphical approach

J C Gustavson¹, C R Gustavson, M P Gabaldon

¹Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-3211.

|February 1, 1993

Abstract:

College students (56 women and 43 men) attending state colleges in the southwestern United States were tested for body-image dissatisfaction using a computer-based graphical body-image task. A reliable relationship between desired stature and desired body-image was observed for the women. Women of large stature showed a greater discrepancy between verbally reported desired stature and redrawn images of desired stature than women of average or smaller than average stature. No reliable discrepancy between desired body-image and verbally reported desired stature was shown by the men.

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