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Healthy lifestyles and body mass index as correlates of body image in primary schoolchildren [PDF]
Background: Body image is a representation of the self that develops from an early age. Such representations are likely to be associated with lifestyle choices.Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between health ...
Calmeiro, Luis, Pereira, Carlos
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BackgroundBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder that affects attitudes toward the body. However, whether this condition also affects body schema and perceptual body image remains unclear.
Dorottya Szily +4 more
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A meta-analytic review of stand-alone interventions to improve body image [PDF]
Objective Numerous stand-alone interventions to improve body image have been developed. The present review used meta-analysis to estimate the effectiveness of such interventions, and to identify the specific change techniques that lead to improvement ...
A Arroyo +142 more
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Body image distortions following spinal cord injury [PDF]
Background: Following spinal cord injury (SCI) or anaesthesia, people may continue to experience feelings of the size, shape, and posture of their body, suggesting that the conscious body image is not fully determined by immediate sensory signals.
Fuentes, C.T. +4 more
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Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing
Prolonged exposure to wide (thin) bodies causes a perceptual aftereffect such that subsequently viewed bodies appear thinner (wider) than they actually are. This phenomenon is known as visual adaptation.
Kevin R. Brooks +9 more
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Body image relates to how individuals perceive and feel about their bodies. Research on body image in men, women, and adolescents has increased substantially in the past two decades.
Emine Kocyigit
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Self-perceived body image and body satisfaction of adolescents [PDF]
Objectives: to evaluate self-perceived body image and body satisfaction of adolescents and their associated factors. Methods: across-sectional study carried out with 200 adolescents from a non-govern-mental organization of Campinas-SP.
Maraísa I. C. Justino +2 more
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The concept of a positive body image in modern foreign psychology [PDF]
Research into the problem of body image has more than a century of history, most of which is associated with the study of negative attitudes towards the body and related psychopathology - eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorders, etc.
Meshkova T.A.
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Visual adaptation has been proposed as a mechanism linking viewing images of thin women’s bodies with body size and shape misperception (BSSM). Non-Caucasian populations appear less susceptible to BSSM, possibly because adaptation to thin Caucasian ...
Lewis Gould-Fensom +13 more
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Background: Body image is an essential aspect of young girls' self-definition and individual identity and is influenced by multitude of factors including cultural, social, cognitive, affective, and biological. In recent times, excessive concern about the
Abhilasha Kapoor +2 more
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