title: Cognitive, self-concept, and body image measures of normal, cleft palate, and obese adolescents.
abstract: Using discriminant function analyses, this study attempted to establish linear combinations of variables that would identify group membership correctly. Groups of normal (N = 100), cleft palate (N = 51), and obese (N = 22) adolescents responded to measures of cognitive sytle and structure, body image, and self-concept. Linear combinations of congitive measures were not effective in differentiating group membership. Body image measures, in combination, clearly distinguished obese adolescents from the other two groups. A linear combination of self-concept measures differentiated adolescents with clefts from normals, with the former group having a pattern of higher self-esteem and lower perceived acceptability by their parents.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000523:psychology; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic