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A Cross-Cultural Study Investigating Body Features Associated With Male Adolescents’ Body Dissatisfaction in Australia, China, and Malaysia

American Journal of Men's Health, 2014
This study investigated how dissatisfaction with particular aspects of the body was associated with overall body dissatisfaction among male adolescents in Western and Asian cultures. One hundred and six Malaysian Malays, 55 Malaysian Chinese, 195 Chinese
David Mellor PhD, Alice Hucker DPsych(Clinical), Monique Waterhouse BAppSci (Psych) (Hons), Norul Hidayah binti Mamat M.Ed (Educational Psychology), Xiaoyan Xu PhD, Jamie Cochrane BA (Hons) Psychology, Marita McCabe PhD, Lina Ricciardelli PhD   +7 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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Effect of Family Pressure, Peer Pressure, and Media Pressure on Body Image Dissatisfaction among Women

Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2022
In the current decades, family-pressure, peer-pressure, and media-pressureare playing a vital role in leadingto body image dissatisfaction among working women.
Muhammad Akbar, Fakhira Nasir, Memoona Aslam, Iqra Qasim   +3 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: 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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Young men’s minimisation of their body dissatisfaction [PDF]

Psychology & Health, 2018
To examine men's body dissatisfaction qualitatively.Forty-two British men aged 18-45 years took part in a two-session group intervention across 12 groups. The intervention was designed to improve body dissatisfaction by engaging them in a critique of the appearance ideal through written and behavioural exercises. Main outcome measures/results: Analysis
Jankowski, G, Gough, B, Fawkner, H, Halliwell, E, Diedrichs, P   +4 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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