Abstract

MACHADO, Danielle Zagonel; MALUCELLI, Andreia; CARVALHO, Deborah Ribeiro  and  BARTOSZECK, Amauri Bettini. Development of the inner body image with Amann-Gainotti perspective: a developmental view. Bol. psicol [online]. 2011, vol.61, n.135, pp. 233-248. ISSN 0006-5943.

This study presents the method proposed by the Danish psychologist Merete Amann-Gainotti for evaluating the inner body image, and justifies its applicability and importance of its dissemination worldwide. In this method the task is to draw the internal body like he or she imagines. It also explains the need to expand researches in the area of the inner body image as well as the importance of the progress of validation studies of its scale for Brazilian population. The method is demonstrated from the point of view of the human body developmental.

Keywords : Human body image; development; validation.

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