Editing Body image (section)

=== Figure rating scales ===
One of the measures of body image is [[figure rating scale]]s, which present a series of body images graded from thin to muscular or from thin to obese.<ref>{{Cite book|doi=10.4324/9781315681528|title=Body Image|year=2016|last1=Grogan|first1=Sarah|isbn=9781315681528|s2cid=19565790 }}</ref> The subject is asked to indicate which figure best represents their current perceived body, and which represents their ideal or desired body. Bodies depicted in figure rating scales are either hand-drawn silhouettes,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hildebrandt|first1=Tom|last2=Langenbucher|first2=Jim|last3=Schlundt|first3=David G|date=May 1, 2004|title=Muscularity concerns among men: development of attitudinal and perceptual measures|journal=Body Image|volume=1|issue=2|pages=169–181|doi=10.1016/j.bodyim.2004.01.001|pmid=18089149|issn=1740-1445}}</ref> computer rendered images,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Talbot|first1=Daniel|last2=Smith|first2=Evelyn|last3=Cass|first3=John|last4=Griffiths|first4=Scott|date=July 2019|title=Development and validation of the New Somatomorphic Matrix–Male: A figural rating scale for measuring male actual–ideal body discrepancy.|journal=Psychology of Men and Masculinity|volume=20|issue=3|pages=356–367|doi=10.1037/men0000165|s2cid=149542364|issn=1939-151X}}</ref> or photographic images.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Swami|first1=Viren|last2=Salem|first2=Natalie|last3=Furnham|first3=Adrian|last4=Tovée|first4=Martin J.|date=June 1, 2008|title=Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment|journal=Personality and Individual Differences|volume=44|issue=8|pages=1752–1761|doi=10.1016/j.paid.2008.02.002|issn=0191-8869}}</ref>