These silhouettes were printed on a large
cardboard format and presented simultaneously to the child. The
child was asked to indicate which among the three figures, “looked
like her/him” and“which one she/he would like to look like” (figures
were coded 1 ‘underweight’; 2 ‘normal weight’; 3 ‘overweight’).
The two research assistants coded the child’s level of understanding
for the two first tasks as follows: 2 for a correct answer
with no help offered by the experimenter; 1 for a correct answer
that was provided with help from the experimenter (this which
consisted in repeating the question and pointing out each figure
saying “which one among those looks the same like as. . .”; and 0
for a non-response or incorrect answer. The level of help required
for the child body image tasks was also recordedใ