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The boxplot above shows that there is a trend for the healthy group to be more accepting<br />

towards their body image than both the underweight and the overweight groups. The<br />

healthy and overweight groups appear negatively skewed whereas the underweight group<br />

appears slightly positively skewed. Relevant descriptive statistics are displayed in Table<br />

14 below.<br />

Table 14 - Descriptive statistics for the body image acceptance clinical scale for the BMI<br />

groups<br />

Body Mass Index (BMI) Category Body image Acceptance<br />

(higher scores indicate acceptance)<br />

Healthy<br />

N<br />

Mean (Std error)<br />

Median<br />

SD<br />

Min-Max<br />

Skewness (Std error)<br />

Overweight<br />

N<br />

Mean (Std error)<br />

Median<br />

SD<br />

Min- Max<br />

Skewness (Std error)<br />

Underweight<br />

N<br />

Mean (Std error)<br />

Median<br />

SD<br />

Min-Max<br />

Skewness (Std error)<br />

51<br />

146.78 (4.99)<br />

162<br />

35.66<br />

49-199<br />

-1.06 (0.33)<br />

10<br />

135.60 (10.09)<br />

137<br />

31.91<br />

81-180<br />

-0.36 (0.689)<br />

20<br />

137.50 (6.68)<br />

137.50<br />

29.88<br />

96-203<br />

0.28 (0.51)<br />

The table above indicates that the healthy BMI group has the highest mean for acceptance<br />

<strong>of</strong> body image (mean 146.78) followed by the underweight group (mean 137.50) and then<br />

the overweight group (mean 135.60) this was considered using bivariate non parametric<br />

analysis. There was a negative skewness for the healthy group and minimal skewness for<br />

the other two groups.<br />

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