Self-worth and psychological adjustment of obese children:An analysis through the Draw-A-Person
Self-worth and psychological adjustment of obese children:An analysis through the Draw-A-Person作者机构：Psychiatric UnitDepartment of BiomedicalDental Sciences and Morpho-functional ImagingUniversity of Messina "Don Carlo Gnocchi" Foundation
出 版 物：《World Journal of Psychiatry》 (世界精神病学杂志)
年 卷 期：2016年第6卷第3期
页 面：329-338页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100202[医学-儿科学] 10[医学]
主 题：Obesity Draw a person Draw-A-Person test Projective techniques Psychopathology
摘 要：AIM To investigate psychopathological correlates of child obesity via the Draw-A-Person test(DAP).METHODS The participants were 50 children with a mean age of 9.74 *** mass index(BMI) was used as a measure of body *** were divided into normal(n = 17),overweight(n = 14) and obese(n = 19).Two qualitative methods of scoring the DAP based on an integrative approach were used to assess self-concept(ESW) and overall level of children s adjustment(EAC).A procedure for judging interpretative skills of clinicians was implemented before they evaluated children s *** As predicted by our hypothesis,BMI was negatively correlated with ESW,r(50) =-0.29,P 0.05,but not with EAC,r(50) =-0.08,P = *** evaluate the effect of gender,Pearson correlations were re-computedregrouping the sample accordingly:BMI and EAC reached a significant negative correlation in female subjects,r(24) =-0.36,P 0.05,and a positive correlation in male subjects,r(26) = 0.37,P = 0.05;negative correlation between BMI and ESW became stronger in females,r(24) =-0.51,P 0.01 but not in males,whose correlation disappeared resulting not-significant,r(26) =-0.06,P = *** effect of age was *** indicate that obesity has a negative correlation exclusively on overall adjustment and self-concept in female *** It was concluded that there is a negative bias toward females that reveals how the stigma of obesity is widespread in Western society.
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