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Table 2 BI self-evaluation expressed as BMI% compared to true BMI%

From: Body image drawings dissociate ethnic differences and anorexia in adolescent girls

 

True BMI%

Question 1. Most like you

Question 2. Ideal shape

Question 3. Others consider most like you

Dissatisfaction (questions 1–2)

AN

15.3 ± 15.6

58.8 ± 17.1***

30.4 ± 12.0*

55.4 ± 20.0***

28.4 ± 28.5

JS

52.1 ± 26.2

50.5 ± 15.3

41.9 ± 11.7***

47.1 ± 20.9

8.7 ± 17.1

C

66.7 ± 26.9

50.6 ± 17.0***

39.5 ± 12.6***

48.4 ± 18.0***

11.1 ± 16.5

H

48.4 ± 29.8

51.0 ± 17.0

39.1 ± 12.2*

48.3 ± 20.0

11.8 ± 16.2

Thin

10.13 ± 6.3

34.1 ± 15.3++

38.0 ± 13.6+

31.4 ± 15.9++

−3.9 ± 14.7+++

  1. Responses to a series of schematic body image drawings thin to obese
  2. AN anorexics, JS Jewish secular, C Christian Arab, H Haredi, schoolgirls
  3. Differ from true BMI%: * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001
  4. Thin schoolgirls matched to AN for BMI%. AN differ from Thin: + p < 0.05,++ p < 0.005,+++ p < 0.001. Thin girl evaluations also diverge significantly from true BMI% (not indicated)
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

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