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Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth
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The Body Image - Acceptance and Action Questionnaire
Figure 2 – Scatterplot of inflexibility of emotional processing and body image acceptance
As can be seen from the above scatterplot there appears to be a negative correlation so
that when inflexibility is high body acceptance is low which was considered with
inferential statistics. The scatterplot suggests a linear relation and there are no apparent
outliers. A significant negative correlation, Pearson’s, r = -0.55, p = 0.001, (n=81) was
confirmed so that the hypothesis that higher inflexibility will be associated with lower
body image acceptance was supported.
Hypothesis I (b): The low and moderate Eating Disorder Risk groups will be less
inflexible in their emotional processing than the high risk group
The following boxplots display the distributions, spread of scores, outliers and any
anomalies of the Avoidance and Fusion Scale for each EDR group. The horizontal line
through each box represents the line of central tendency, the median score.
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