Body Image Assessment:
Essential Notes for a Good Research Practice
Keywords:
Body image, Research, MethodologyAbstract
Body image research had a significant growth in Brazil, markedly in the last decade. Despite the undeniable
maturity that the recent production is showing, some methodological inconsistencies can still been identified in body image
research in Brazil, similar to what happened outside Brazil in the decade of the 1990s. This methodological article is focused
on important methodological points that require attention in the phase of research planning. The information systematized
here was collected from books and scientific articles, as well from courses for reviewers of journals specialized in this area.
Four topics were chosen to be discussed here and each of them will bring relevant notes for elaboration, execution and data
analyzes in body image research.
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healthy status measures. Illinois (USA): American Academy of
Orthopedic Surgeons. Institute for Work & Health.
Breakwell, G. M., Hammond, S., Fife-Schaw, C., & Smith, J. A.
(2010). Métodos de pesquisa em psicologia. Porto Alegre:
Artmed.
Campana, A.N.N.B. (2011) Relações entre as dimensões da
imagem corporal: um estudo com homens brasileiros. 2011.
(unpublished dissertation thesis) Faculdade de Educação
Física. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São
Paulo, Brasil
Campana, A. N. N. B., & Tavares, M. C. G. C. F. (2009). Avaliação
da Imagem Corporal: instrumentos e diretrizes para pesquisa.
São Paulo: Phorte Editora.
Cash, T. (2011). Crucial considerations in the assessment of body
image. In T. Cash & L. Smolak (Eds.), Body Image: a handbook
of science, practice and prevention. (pp. 129-137). Nova
Iorque: The Guilford Press.
Cliff, N. (1983). Some cautions concerning the application of Casual
Modeling Methods. Multivariate Behavioural Research, 18,
115-126.
DeVellis, R. F. (2003). Scale development: theory and applications
(2 ed.). Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications.
Fisher, S. (1990). The evolution of psychological concepts about
the body In T. Cash & T. Pruzinsky (Eds.), Body Images:
development, deviance and change (pp. 3-20). Nova Iorque:
The Guilford Press.
Gardner, R. M. (1996). Methodological issues in assessment of
the perceptual component of body image disturbance. British
Journal of Psychology, 87, 327-337
Gardner, R. M. (2011). Perceptual measures of body image for
adolescents and adults. In: T. Cash & L. Smolak (Eds.), Body
Image: a handbook of science, practice and prevention. (pp.
146-153). Nova Iorque: The Guilford Press.
Krawczyk, R., Menzel, J., & Thompson J. K. (2012). Methodological
issues in the study of body image and appearance. In N. Rumsey
& D. Harcourt (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the psychology
of appearance (pp. 605-619). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McCabe, M., Ricciardelli, L., Sitaram, G., & Mikail, K. (2006).
Accuracy of body size estimation: role of biopsychosocial
variables. Body Image, 3, 163-171.
Menzel, J., Krawczyk, R., & Thompson J. K. (2011). Atittudinal
assessment of body image for adolescents and adults. In T.
Cash & L. Smolak (Eds.), Body Image: a handbook of science,
practice and prevention. (pp. 154-172). Nova Iorque: The
Guilford Press.
Mueller, R. O. (1997). Structural Equation Modeling: back to basics.
Structural Equation Modeling, 4, 353-369
Pasquali, L. (2003). Psicometria: teoria dos testes na psicologia e
na educação. Petrópolis: Vozes.
Simões, E. Q., & Tiedemann, K. B. (1985). Psicologia da
Percepção. São Paulo: EPU.
Smeets, M. (1997). The rise and fall of body size estimation
research in anorexia nervosa: a review and reconceptualization.
European Eating Disorders Review, 5, 75-95.
Tavares, M.C.G.C.F. (2003). Imagem corporal: Conceito e
desenvolvimento. Barueri: Manole.
Tavares, M. C. G. C. F. Campana, A. N. N. B, Tavares-Filho, R. F.,
& Campana, M. B. (2010). Avaliação perceptiva da imagem
corporal: história, reconceituação e perspectivas para o Brasil.
Psicologia em Estudo, 15, 509-518.
Thompson, J. K. (1990). Body image disturbance: assessment and
treatment. Nova Iorque: Pergamon Press.
Thompson, J. K. (2004). The (mis) measurement of body image:
ten strategies to improve assessment for applied and research
purposes. Body Image, 1, 7-14.
Thompson, J. K., & Dolce, J. (1989). The discrepancy between
emotional vs. rational estimates of body size, actual size and
ideal body ratings. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45, 473-478
Thompson, J. K., & Gardner, R. M. (2002). Measuring Perceptual
Body Image among adolescents and adults. In T. Cash & T.
Pruzinsky (Eds.), Body Image: a handbook of theory, research
& clinical practice (pp.135-141). Nova Iorque: The Guilford
Press.
Thompson, J.K, Heinberg, L., Altabe, M., & Tantleff-Dunn, S.
(1998). Exacting beauty: theory, assessment and treatment of
body image disturbance. Washington: APA.
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2015-11-17
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Neves, A. N., Morgado, F. F. da R., & Tavares, M. da C. G. C. F. (2015). Body Image Assessment:: Essential Notes for a Good Research Practice. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 31(3), 375–380. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18603
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