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A comparison of females and males body dissatisfaction in young adults.
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A comparison of females and males body dissatisfaction in young adults. Abstract The present study was to replicate the findings of Fallon and Rozin's (1985) study. Using Fallon and Rozin's (1985) figure scale, ranging from 1 to 9, 1 = very thin, 9 = very heavy, 30 female and 30 male participants from an online psychology website participated in a questionnaire based on the above figure scale drawings indicated their current figure, their ideal figure, and the figure they found most attractive in the opposite sex. Females current figures are heavier than their ideal figures and heavier than the figures males reported most attractive, and males current figures are thinner than their ideal and thinner than females reported was the most attractive. Both sexes reported a degree of body dissatisfaction, females preferring to be thinner and males preferring to be larger. The differences that are reported coincide with that of Fallon...
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