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Body image of children and adolescents with chronic illness: A meta-analytic comparison with healthy peers
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This meta-analysis integrates results from 330 studies on differences between body image of children and adolescents with and without chronic physical illness. Young people with a chronic illness had a less positive body image than their healthy peers although the average size of differences was small (g=-.30 standard deviation units). A comparison of diseases showed that young people with obesity (g=-.79), cystic fibrosis (g=-.50), scoliosis (g=-.41), asthma (g=-.37), growth hormone deficits (g=-.35), spina bifida (g=-.23), cancer (g=-.20), and diabetes (g=-.17) evaluated their body less positively than their healthy peers. Furthermore, levels of body dissatisfaction varied by age at onset of the disease, method for assessing body image, ethnicity, year of publication, and comparison group. Recommendations are stated for reducing effects of chronic illness on the body image of people with chronic illness.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pinquart, M.
- Affiliations
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Pinquart, M.
- ORCID
- Pinquart, M.
- Venue
- Body Image
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-03
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 141-148
- ISSN
- 1740-1445 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2046564307
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Body Image (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Keywords
- chronic disease, children and adolescents, body dissatisfaction, obesity, cystic fibrosis, scoliosis, asthma, growth hormone deficiency, spina bifida, cancer, diabetes mellitus, age of onset, ethnicity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Attitude to Health, Body Image, Child, Chronic Disease, Emotions, Female, Persons with Disabilities, Disabled Persons, Humans, Male, Peer Group, Personal Satisfaction, Self Concept
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