title: Development and validation of two new scales for assessment of body-image.
abstract: This study reports the development and validation of two new and improved tools for assessment of body-image. Two schematic contour scales were created using a frontal view photograph of an adult male and female with height and weight of the median American. A 2-figure analogue scale was created by distorting this drawing by +/- 30%. A 13-card scale was created by generating 13 drawings distorted between +/- 30% by increments of 5%. Evidence is presented for the reliability and validity of both scales. The advantages of these new scales over existing figural and silhouette scales are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Denver 80217-3364, USA. rgardner@carbon.cudenver.edu
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stark
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001824:Body Constitution; D001828:Body Image; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010781:Photography; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results