What have the difference scores not been telling us? a critique of the use of self-ideal discrepancy in the assessment of body image and evaluation of an alternative data-analytic framework

Assessment

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-376

  Cafri, Guy ^a   van den Berg, Patricia ^b   Brannick, Michael T ^c  

^a CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SERVICES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Body image; Difference scores; Silhouette scales

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; EATING DISORDER; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGNOSIA; BODY IMAGE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 77955258993     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191109357028     Document Type: Article

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