Copyright and creating other formsĪs of October 2023 the management of the BSQ has been transferred to MAPI trust, see: Go to the BSQ thesis directory to get it in total or parts. Wolfson College Cambridge 1987. A paper copy is kept in the Library for Experimental Psychology at the university but, with Melanie sacrificing one of her paper copies and me cutting it up and putting it through a scanner, an electronic copy is now online. The full detail is in Melanie’s PhD thesis: “The Nature and Significance of Body Image Disturbance”. International Journal of Eating Disorders 6: 485-494. The development and validation of the Body Shape Questionnaire. It was first reported in: Cooper, P.J., M.J. The BSQ is a self-report measure of the body shape preoccupations typical of bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Original PhD thesis about the development of the BSQ.Cautionary note: DON’T ask me for the reliability let alone the validity of the BSQ!.Why I don’t think we can have a meaningful ungendered BSQ.
