Additionally, the Contour Drawing Rating Scale [31] was applied to all participants. This scale users standardized silhouettes and asks the question; “How do you look like “ ?
The silhouettes were also used for a rating of the body images from 10 external, female raters. The frontal images of all participating women were presented randomly three time in combination with the silhouettes on a computer screen. The raters had to match the image of body with the scale of nine different female body contours provide by the contour Drawing Rating Scale [31]. The median of this rating for every individual woman was subtracted from the self estimation of this woman, resulting in a difference score which represents the misrating of body image.