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- Title
Body size, parental appraisal, and self-esteem in blind children.
- Authors
Pierce, J W; Wardle, J
- Abstract
This study of self-esteem, body size, and parental views in 9-11-year-old blind children found positive views about self-presentation with no sex or weight differences. Lower self-esteem emerged in children who thought they were judged by parents as too thin but being fat, being appraised as fat, or believing they are thought of as fat by parents, showed no effect on self-esteem. Their responses to questions about the causes, characteristics, and psychosocial functioning of obesity suggest an innate desire and possible need for a more robust stature, a bigger presence, and a feeling of weight which appeared to supercede any acquired negative attitudes to fatness.
- Publication
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 1996, Vol 37, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0021-9630
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01392.x