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How malleable are attentional biases in women with body dissatisfaction? Priming effects and their impact on attention to images of women’s bodies

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 2019
Understanding attentional biases associated with body dissatisfaction can aid in devising and refining programs to reduce body dissatisfaction. This study compared attention to images of women’s bodies before and after a body satisfaction or body ...
Samantha Withnell, Christopher R. Sears, Kristin M. von Ranson   +2 more
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Body Image and Sexual Dissatisfaction: Differences Among Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Lesbian Women

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Gender-based differences in body image dissatisfaction are not conclusive. Women’s body experiences and their impact on sexual satisfaction may advance knowledge on how heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women internalize heterosexist values.
Silvia Moreno-Domínguez, Tania Raposo, Paz Elipe   +2 more
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Body Image Dissatisfaction among Adolescent Girls of a Municipality in Kathmandu: A Cross-sectional Survey

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2021
Introduction: Body image is the person’s perceptions, thoughts and feelings about his/her body which is a multi-dimensional concept. Body Image Dissatisfaction can be measured using a Body Shape Questionnaire.
Garima Malla, Sarala (Pradhan) Joshi, Alisha Thapa   +2 more
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Predictors of Mothers' Postpartum Body Dissatisfaction [PDF]

Women & Health, 2009
To investigate changes in mothers' body dissatisfaction from delivery to 9 months postpartum, and the relationship of postpartum body dissatisfaction to weight, other health, and social characteristics.In this prospective longitudinal study, 506 mothers completed surveys at 0-1 and 9 months postpartum.
Dwenda, Gjerdingen, Patricia, Fontaine, Scott, Crow, Patricia, McGovern, Bruce, Center, Michael, Miner   +5 more
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Sex differences in the relationships between body dissatisfaction, quality of life and psychological distress

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2016
Background: Body dissatisfaction is associated with impairment in women's quality of life (QoL). To date, research has not examined the relationship between body dissatisfaction and men's QoL, or sex differences in this relationship. Methods: A community
Scott Griffiths, Phillipa Hay, Deborah Mitchison, Jonathan M. Mond, Siân A. McLean, Bryan Rodgers, Robin Massey, Susan J. Paxton   +7 more
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Materialism, Body Surveillance, Body Shame, and Body Dissatisfaction: Testing a Mediational Model

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
The present study aimed to examine the mechanisms underlying the links between materialism and body dissatisfaction. A sample of 583 Chinese undergraduate women completed a questionnaire measuring materialism, body surveillance, body shame, and body ...
Qingqing Sun
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Development and validation of new figural scales for female body dissatisfaction assessment on two dimensions: thin-ideal and muscularity-ideal

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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Body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to thin bodies

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2009
AbstractObjective:Evidence for attentional biases to weight‐ and shape‐related information in women with eating concerns is inconclusive.Method:We investigated whether body dissatisfaction is associated with an attentional bias toward thin bodies using a modified dot probe task.Results:In three studies, we found that undergraduate females were faster ...
Glauert, Rebecca, Rhodes, Gillian, Fink, Bernhard, Grammer, Karl   +3 more
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Body image dissatisfaction is associated with perceived body weight among secondary school adolescents in Harar Town, eastern Ethiopia

Frontiers in Psychiatry
PurposeBody image dissatisfaction has emerged as an important determinant of dietary and physical activity, which in turn determine adolescents’ nutritional status. Hence, it is important to understand predictors of body image dissatisfaction. Therefore,
Abainash Tekola, Lemma Demissie Regassa, Miheret Mandefro, Samrawit Shawel, Obsan Kassa, Feyisa Shasho, Teshome Demis, Awoke Masrie, Aklilu Tamire, Kedir Teji Roba   +9 more
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Body dissatisfaction: how is it related to stress and one's perception of individual and cultural ideal body? A comparison of Bosnian and American university students

Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2005
Cultural differences in body dissatisfaction, the relationship of stress to body dissatisfaction and individual and cultural body ideals were investigated. Forty-eight United States women and 48 Bosnian women completed the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ),
Šejla Šerifović, Dale L. Dinnel, Osman Sinanović   +2 more
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