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Misperceptions of body shape among university students from Germany and Lithuania

Christiane Stock (Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Promotion Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark. E‐mail: cstock@health.sdu.dk (corresponding author))
Nazan Kücük (Doctoral Student, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)
Irena Miseviciene (Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.)
Janina Petkeviciene (Assistant Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.)
Alexander Krämer (Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.)

Health Education

ISSN: 0965-4283

Article publication date: 1 April 2004

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with misperceptions of body shape for 1,681 first‐year University students from Germany and Lithuania. The perception of body shape was rated on a five‐point scale. Multifactorial logistic regression showed that German students were more likely to perceive themselves as being fatter than their BMI suggested compared with their Lithuanian peers. The results indicated that misperception of body shape was a substantial problem for these university students, particularly those from Germany.

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Stock, C., Kücük, N., Miseviciene, I., Petkeviciene, J. and Krämer, A. (2004), "Misperceptions of body shape among university students from Germany and Lithuania", Health Education, Vol. 104 No. 2, pp. 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654280410525559

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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