Development and validation of new figural scales for female body dissatisfaction assessment on two dimensions: thin-ideal and muscularity-ideal [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Body dissatisfaction influences women’s mental and physical health. To date, most research has focused on body dissatisfaction in relation to the ‘thin-ideal’.
Christina Ralph-Nearman, Ruth Filik
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Perception of body size and body dissatisfaction in adults [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Self-perception of body size seems to be not always in line with clinical definitions of normal weight, overweight and obesity according to Word Health Organization classification.
Wojciech Gruszka +5 more
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The effects of media exposure on body dissatisfaction and cognitive bias in adolescent girls and boys [PDF]
, 2010 The transmission of information by the media about the ideal body has been highlighted as a cause of body image problems. Exposure to such information is hypothesised to increase appearance-related cognitive bias and body dissatisfaction.
George, Hannah Rebecca
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A BIOGRAPHIC CASE OF BODY DISSATISFACTION
Demetra, 2016 In this paper we analyze the life history of a woman, as told in first person by herself and in third person by her partner, focusing on her worries about body image and how they affect various important aspects of her everyday life through the life ...
Natalia Solano-Pinto +1 more
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The Effect of Attention on Body Size Adaptation and Body Dissatisfaction [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Attentional bias to low fat bodies is thought to be associated with body dissatisfaction—a symptom and risk factor of eating disorders. However, the causal nature of this relationship is unclear. In three preregistered experiments, we trained 370 women to attend towards either high or low fat body stimuli using an attention training dot probe task. For
T. House +3 more
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The Application of Bibliotheraphy on Adolesenc Girls with Body Image Dissatisfaction [PDF]
, 2011 Body image dissatisfaction, caused by a discrepancy between cultural-based ideal body and individual actual body, is experienced by most of adolesencet girls.
Sukamto, Monique Elizabeth +2 more
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Correlates of Body Dissatisfaction in Children [PDF]
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2016 To assess body dissatisfaction among children between 9 and 14 years of age and to examine factors (age, sex, body mass index, perceived shape, and self-esteem) associated with wanting a thinner or a larger shape.Through at-school questionnaires, 1515 preadolescent children (51.2% girls) were asked to fill out the Culture Free Self-Esteem Inventory and
Jacinthe Dion +8 more
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Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: A prospective study [PDF]
, 2021 Rationale: Body dissatisfaction is prevalent in mid-adolescence and may be associated with the onset of depression. Objective: The study assessed the influence of body dissatisfaction on the occurrence of later depressive episodes in a population-based ...
Slater, Amy +3 more
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The role of perfectionism in body dissatisfaction [PDF]
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2013 Body dissatisfaction is a robust risk factor for disordered eating and is thought to be especially problematic in the presence of high levels of perfectionism. The aim of the current study was to investigate what types of perfectionism were associated with body dissatisfaction.
Wade, Tracey Diane, Tiggemann, Marika
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GENDER IDENTITY, LONELINESS, AND BODY DISSATISFACTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Social Inquiry into Well-Being, 2023 Identity formation is an important developmental process during adolescence. The interplay between adolescents’ gender identity, loneliness, and body dissatisfaction is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
Oksana Malinauskienė
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