Open Learning - PSY11 Laboratory Assignment Questionnaire

The questions below ask you about your actual and preferred figures. You will need to have the appropriate body shape scale available to refer to as you answer each question.

The first set of questions relate to the body shape scale for your own sex.

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1. Which drawing best depicts your current figure?
2. Which drawing represents the figure you would most like to look like?
3. Choose the thinnest figure which you would still find acceptable for a person of your age.
4. Choose the heaviest figure which you would find acceptable for a person your age.
5. Choose the figure that you believe most other people would see as the most attractive for someone of a similar age to you.

These next questions relate to the body shape scale for the opposite sex.

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6. Choose the figure that you find most attractive, assuming they are of similar age to you.
7. Choose the figure that you believe most other people would see as the most attractive for someone of similar age to you.

Now a few questions about yourself -

8. Age

9. Sex
Female Male

10. On the following scale, indicate how much you are concerned that your current body shape is not as attractive as you would like.

11. On the following scale, indicate how much you are concerned that your current body shape means you are not as healthy as you would like.

12. Do you sometimes engage in dieting in order to lose weight.
Yes No

Thank you for participating in this research study.