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Body Image and Body Image Dissatisfaction
2015The bodily self-image is a lifelong, dynamic cognitive process of self-appraisal that is unique to each individual, yet influenced by a myriad of external factors. While the majority of research relates to weight and body shape, there are an unlimited number of physical features that impact the body image.
Elizabeth Damstetter, Neelam A. Vashi
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Body Image, 2004
Modern western culture emphasizes thinness, denigrates excess weight, and stigmatizes obese individuals, making it likely that obese people internalize these messages and feel badly about the physical presence that brands them. There is clear evidence that obesity is linked with poor body image, but not all obese persons suffer from this problem or are
Marlene B. Schwartz, Kelly D. Brownell
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Modern western culture emphasizes thinness, denigrates excess weight, and stigmatizes obese individuals, making it likely that obese people internalize these messages and feel badly about the physical presence that brands them. There is clear evidence that obesity is linked with poor body image, but not all obese persons suffer from this problem or are
Marlene B. Schwartz, Kelly D. Brownell
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Dimensionality of the Body-Image: The Body-Image Questionnaire
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1987A body-image questionnaire was administered to 619 French subjects between the ages of 10 and 40 yr. A principal factor analysis of item correlations yielded four meaningful factors. Some of them are associated with personality traits of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, age, and sex.
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Body Concern, Body Image and Nudity [PDF]
Psychological Reports, 1968 100 nudists and 60 controls were compared on several aspects of figure drawings and the Secord-Jourard inventories of body- and self-cathexis. The results showed important effects of sex differences and testing milieu on test responses and tended to support findings of an earlier study indicating that nudists present more body-image distortion and ...
A. Arthur Sugerman +2 more
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The Nurse Practitioner, 1982
Psoriasis is a world-wide, chronic skin disorder which ranges in severity from a mild, localized condition to a widespread, intractable type with potential for systemic involvement. Although this disease is noninfectious, it nevertheless creates fear and misunderstanding in both health care providers and the lay public.
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Psoriasis is a world-wide, chronic skin disorder which ranges in severity from a mild, localized condition to a widespread, intractable type with potential for systemic involvement. Although this disease is noninfectious, it nevertheless creates fear and misunderstanding in both health care providers and the lay public.
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The Journal of General Psychology, 1974
Summary It was predicted that murderers would differ in their body-image boundary dimensions from attempted suicides. It was found that the murderers obtained lower barrier scores, which was in opposition to the prediction, and lower penetration scores, which was in agreement with the prediction. Overall, therefore, the prediction was not supported.
David Lester, William C. Perdue
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Summary It was predicted that murderers would differ in their body-image boundary dimensions from attempted suicides. It was found that the murderers obtained lower barrier scores, which was in opposition to the prediction, and lower penetration scores, which was in agreement with the prediction. Overall, therefore, the prediction was not supported.
David Lester, William C. Perdue
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2012
The discourses of media and body are usually separate, but media and bodies themselves unite in the experience of images. This anthropological constellation of image, medium, and body is expanded with a fourth factor when we introduce the concept of the gaze. Images emerge only in the act of looking.
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The discourses of media and body are usually separate, but media and bodies themselves unite in the experience of images. This anthropological constellation of image, medium, and body is expanded with a fourth factor when we introduce the concept of the gaze. Images emerge only in the act of looking.
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British Journal of Psychiatry, 1968
The concept of the ‘body image’ rests on a broad foundation of neurological and psychological observations. Neurological observations of phantom limbs, agnosias, apraxias, and similar phenomena led to an initial formulation of the body image as a postural, spatial image of the body (2, 6).
R. F. Reinhardt +2 more
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The concept of the ‘body image’ rests on a broad foundation of neurological and psychological observations. Neurological observations of phantom limbs, agnosias, apraxias, and similar phenomena led to an initial formulation of the body image as a postural, spatial image of the body (2, 6).
R. F. Reinhardt +2 more
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