What shape that body is taken to have and the salience of that shape is therefore formed by affect, emotion, and desire, mediated by the relations we have with significant others, and by the images we encounter in a public culture.
Adolescence is an intensive period in which the salience of body shape is considerable.
It is also evident that the salience of body shape and size is heightened in early pregnancy relative to late pregnancy [ 12, 13] and women feel stronger, fitter, and less fat later in pregnancy compared with early pregnancy [ 12, 13, 16].
Two subscales of the Body Attitudes Questionnaire [ 39] which relate to pregnant women will be used to assess Body Image: Attractiveness and Salience of Weight and Shape.
The internal consistency estimates (averaged over the three time points) ranged from.70 (strength and fitness) to.88 (feeling fat), whereas the averaged test-retest reliability estimates ranged from.64 (salience of weight and shape) to.77 (feeling fat) [ 16].
The BAQ is one of the most commonly used measures of body dissatisfaction among pregnant women because it comprises four subscales of dissatisfaction that are, at face value, relevant for this population: feeling fat, strength and fitness, salience of weight and shape, and attractiveness [ 11].
Ben-Tovim and Walker demonstrated the factorial validity and internal consistency (α = .87 for full scale) of the BAQ, and showed that scores on these subscales were stable over a four-week test-retest period (r = .64 for salience of weight and shape to r = .91 for feeling fat) in a non-clinical sample of hospital employees and students [ 19].
Michael Bywater (When a manly pat on the back won't do, 1 August) correctly points to the salience of culture in shaping our responses to grief, but when he writes "We have grown to distrust rationality; feeling is the new thinking", whom is he referring to?
Empirical assessments of MI posting and transfer reveal the salience of politics in shaping the posting and transfer system.
The salience of these problems was shaped primarily by social factors, which framed both the practical consequences of sight loss and their meaning for respondents.
