The longitudinal associations between appearance-focused social network site use and body dissatisfaction among college students: serial mediation of appearance comparison and internalization of appearance ideals [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionBody dissatisfaction is common among college students, and social network site use is a potential risk factor. However, research rarely focuses on specific content types.
Tianyu Zhang +5 more
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Monitoring the Normal Body: Ideals and Practices among Normal-Weight and Moderately Overweight People [PDF]
Obesity Facts, 2015 Introduction: An extensive body of literature is concerned with obese people, risk, and weight management. However, little is known about weight management among people not belonging to the extreme BMI categories. Management of weight among normal-weight
Nina Konstantin Nissen +2 more
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A mixed-methods study of body esteem, disordered eating behaviors, acculturative stress, and sociocultural correlates among female Chinese international students [PDF]
Journal of Eating DisordersBackground Global migration has heightened the need to understand how cultural transitions influence body image and eating behaviors. In the U.S., Chinese international students represent one of the largest migrant student groups, with women showing ...
Peiyi Wang +3 more
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Do comparisons on social media lead to body dissatisfaction? The roles of internalization and protective filtering [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground 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 ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 We used attractiveness judgements as a proxy to visualize the ideal female and male body for male and female participants and investigated how individual differences in the internalization of cultural ideals influence these representations.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 IntroductionThe study examines the influence on body dissatisfaction of viewed images of bodies transmitted over mass media and social media, as mediated by the internalization of body ideals through media and self-discrepancy (the difference between the
Michelle Möri +2 more
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Muscles and the Media: A Natural Experiment Across Cultures in Men’s Body Image
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 An increasing number of studies are evidencing relationships between the drive for muscularity and potentially harmful behavioral strategies, such as unhealthy dieting and steroid use amongst men in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich ...
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PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectiveObesity is highly prevalent among ethnic minorities and acceptance of larger body sizes may put these ethnic minorities at risk of obesity. This study aimed to examine body size ideals and body satisfaction in relation to body weight, in two Sub-
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Fashion and Textiles, 2022 While numerous sociopsychological factors affect one’s acceptance of cosmetic surgery, little is known about the sociopsychological influences that lead to cosmetic surgery acceptance based on one’s prior experience with cosmetic surgery.
Sunwoo Kim
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Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022 Plain English summary Body dissatisfaction and eating disorders are increasing on a global scale. It has been suggested that increasing access to globalised media maybe one factor in rising risk of eating disorders in low- and middle-income countries. We
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