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Do comparisons on social media lead to body dissatisfaction? The roles of internalization and protective filtering [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Background Body comparisons on social media, particularly upward and parallel comparisons, are widespread among young women. As one of the most popular platforms among Chinese youth, TikTok fosters environments where such comparisons may exacerbate body ...
Jing Ji, Jing Yan, Ren Chen, Junfang Xu, Min Li   +4 more
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The relationship between vulnerable narcissism and body dissatisfaction among cosplayers: the serial mediating mechanisms of self-objectification and rumination [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
ObjectiveThis study examined the association between vulnerable narcissism and body dissatisfaction among cosplayers and investigated the serial mediating mechanisms of self-objectification and rumination.MethodsA total of 335 cosplayers completed ...
Yu Zhou, Yajuan Huang, Jia Wang, Jia Wang, Jia Wang, Xin Xu, Xin Xu   +6 more
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Assessing associations amongst body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms and sociocultural influences in adolescents from rural Nicaragua [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Introduction We conducted a cross-sectional study with adolescents in rural Nicaragua to assess the associations amongst body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms and sociocultural influences (sociocultural pressures and media internalization), and ...
Fabienne E. Andres, Tracey Thornborrow, Wienis N. Bowie, Malcolm Gonzalez, Elizabeth H. Evans, Lynda G. Boothroyd   +5 more
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Differences in the relationships between interoceptive sensibility and self-objectification in women with high and low body dissatisfaction: A network analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Body dissatisfaction is a normative experience with the potential to impact women's mental and physical health. It is closely related to self-objectification, where the body is viewed as an object for aesthetic evaluation rather than for its functional ...
Akansha Mahesh Naraindas, Amy McInerney, Sonya Deschênes, Sarah Maeve Cooney   +3 more
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Agreement of adolescents’ self-perception of their body image with the analysis on the three-dimensional body image [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2022
Objectives: to verify the agreement among adolescents’ perception of their own body image and the health professionals’ analysis based on three-dimensional body image and the inter-rater agreement. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with 1,
Susana Cararo Confortin, Camila Meireles Souza, Bianca Rodrigues de Oliveira, Karla Daniele Silva Marques, Lívia Carolina Sobrinho Rudakoff, Elma Izze da Silva Magalhães, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva   +6 more
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Body image dissatisfaction and body regulation practices

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Body image dissatisfaction as negative evaluation of personal physical characteristics is often associated with low self-esteem, eating and affective disorders.
E. Nikolaev
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Predicting clothing behaviors of Generation Y men through self-esteem and body dissatisfaction

Fashion and Textiles, 2020
This study investigated how various dimensions of body dissatisfaction of men in Generation Y (i.e., body dissatisfaction-weight, body dissatisfaction-muscles, and body dissatisfaction-height) influenced their clothing related behavioral responses ...
Jihyun Sung, Ruoh-Nan Yan
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Body image perceptions and avoidance behaviours among a Moroccan group of adolescents

Annals of Human Biology, 2022
Background Adolescents are a vulnerable group to body dissatisfaction that causes unhealthy attitudes and behaviours. It has been shown that many factors affect body image dissatisfaction.
Raja Zakaria, Hakima Amor, Abdellatif Baali   +2 more
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Media and Life Dissatisfaction as Predictors of Body Dissatisfaction

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2015
Body dissatisfaction can contribute to social, occupational and recreational losses, constituting a risk factor to health. This study aimed to evaluate the predictors of body dissatisfaction regarding demographic variables, media and life satisfaction ...
Melissa Bittencourt Jaeger, Sheila Gonçalves Câmara   +1 more
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Body dissatisfaction among undergraduate medical students in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Einstein (São Paulo), 2022
Objective To assess the level of body dissatisfaction among undergraduate medical students in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Methods A cross-sectional study with 232 volunteers of both sexes at a private college.
Bruno Cassiano dos Santos, Dominique D’Alessandro Conte de Almeida, Nathália Vital Guilarducci, Rachel Rocha Pinheiro Machado   +3 more
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