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Body image dissatisfaction and body regulation practices

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Body image dissatisfaction as negative evaluation of personal physical characteristics is often associated with low self-esteem, eating and affective disorders.
E. Nikolaev
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The body as image: image as body [PDF]

The Lancet, 2017
Pain consultations are often contested spaces where patient and clinician compete for the roles of speaker. Often patients are searching for mechanical explanations and clinicians for psychological ones - creating an impasse and causing distress to both parties.
Padfield, D, Chadwick, T, Omand, H
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Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
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, Kevin R. Brooks, Evelyn Baldry, Jonathan Mond, Jonathan Mond, Richard J. Stevenson, Richard J. Stevenson, Deborah Mitchison, Ian D. Stephen, Ian D. Stephen   +9 more
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Disturbed body schema, perceptual body image, and attitudinal body image in patients with borderline personality disorder

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
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, Rebeka Kelemen, Zita S. Nagy, Dominik Szabó, Zsolt Szabolcs Unoka   +4 more
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BODY IMAGE IN AGING

Anti-Aging Eastern Europe, 2023
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]

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2020
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, Carla Cristina Enes, Luciana Bertoldi Nucci   +2 more
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The Thin White Line: Adaptation Suggests a Common Neural Mechanism for Judgments of Asian and Caucasian Body Size

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
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, Lewis Gould-Fensom, Chrystalle B. Y. Tan, Kevin R. Brooks, Kevin R. Brooks, Kevin R. Brooks, Jonathan Mond, Jonathan Mond, Richard J. Stevenson, Richard J. Stevenson, Richard J. Stevenson, Ian D. Stephen, Ian D. Stephen, Ian D. Stephen   +13 more
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Prevalence, patterns, and determinants of body image dissatisfaction among female undergraduate students of University of Delhi

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
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, Madhu Kumari Upadhyay, Narinder Kumar Saini   +2 more
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Body Image and Body Dysmorphic Concerns

Acta Dermato Venereologica, 2014
Most people would like to change something about their bodies and the way that they look, but for some it becomes an obsession. A healthy skin plays an important role in a person's physical and mental wellbeing, whereas a disfiguring appearance is associated with body image concerns.
Tomas-Aragones, L., Marron, S.E.
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Weight Stigma among Undergraduate Healthcare Students: A Vignette Study

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Weight stigma is described as prejudice and discrimination concerning body weight. People stigmatized by their body weight report worse physical and mental health and, consequently, poor psychosocial functioning.
Wedsley dos Santos Silva André, Thainá Richelli Oliveira Resende, Pedro Henrique Berbert de Carvalho   +2 more
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