P587 Assessing how IBD patients see themselves? Validation and first use of a targeted body image instrument

The Relationship Between Perceived Body Image and Depression: How College Women See Themselves May Affect Depression

The search for the ideal body type is an area of focus for many women, and the inability to reach the ideal for some women is devastating. The relationship between low body image perceptions and depression has been studied numerous times over the past few decades. Past research indicates that as a woman becomes more focused on her appearance, or if her body image perceptions decrease, levels of...

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves

How people see others is different from how people see themselves: a replicable pattern across cultures.

Consensus studies from 4 cultures--in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Germany--as well as secondary analyses of self- and observer-reported Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) data from 29 cultures suggest that there is a cross-culturally replicable pattern of difference between internal and external perspectives for the Big Five personality traits. People see themselves as m...

Development and Validation of Successful Aging Instrument

Objectives: Successful aging is an interdisciplinary concept. Despite the great body of literature on successful aging, few studies have focused on its subjective and multidimensional measurements. Thus, the present study aimed to develop an instrument to measure self-perceived successful aging. Methods: We used a mixed method approach. The successful aging dimensions were explored through an ...

How IBD patients cope with IBD: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVE Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can have a significant impact on psychological wellbeing and quality of life. How one responds to and copes with IBD may be an important determinant of psychological wellbeing. We aimed to systematically review all published literature regarding coping strategies of IBD patients. METHODS Ovid and Pubmed databases were searched over 6 months. All arti...