Emotional Response Patterns to Body Weight-Related Cues
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 10 (3) , 369-375
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167284103004
Abstract
75 female University students were given either a body weight related questionnaire (QJ) or a control questionnaire (Q2) prior to taking the California Test of Personality (CTP), a measure of emotional adjustment. Overweight body image women given QJ had significantly lower emotional adjustment scores p < .01) regardless of actual body weight than all others. Women with normal images had higher CTP scores (p < .01). Women given Q2 had equivalent scores regardless of body weight or image. The study experimentally demonstrated that females emotionally respond to stimuli that focus attention on body weight, and the direction of their responses depends on body weight image.Keywords
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