The body-image questionnaire: an extension

Percept Mot Skills. 2002 Feb;94(1):189-96. doi: 10.2466/pms.2002.94.1.189.

Abstract

The 19-item Body-Image Questionnaire, developed by our team and first published in this journal in 1987 by Bruchon-Schweitzer, was administered to 1,222 male and female French subjects. A principal component analysis of their responses yielded an axis we interpreted as a general Body Satisfaction dimension. The four-factor structure observed in 1987 was not replicated. Body Satisfaction was associated with sex, health, and with current and future emotional adjustment.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Body Image*
  • Breast Neoplasms / psychology
  • Child
  • Factor Analysis, Statistical
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Low Back Pain / psychology
  • Lung Neoplasms / psychology
  • Male
  • Personal Satisfaction
  • Surveys and Questionnaires*