A Longitudinal Study on Body Image Perception and Size among Italian Early Adolescents: Changes over Time and Discrepancies between Genders.

Although the degree of BI dissatisfaction (FID) was higher in girls than in boys approaching +1 (the dissatisfaction threshold according to Mendo–Lazaro, 17 [ 59 ]), this did not reach statistical significance in the gender comparisons in the likeness of what was found in a cross-sectional study of a sample of Italian children aged 5 to 12 years examined in 2022–2023 [ 25 ].

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