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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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Body dissatisfaction revisited : on the importance of implicit beliefs about actual and ideal body image [PDF]
Body dissatisfaction (i.e., a negative attitude towards one’s own physical appearance) is assumed to originate from a perceived discrepancy between the actual physical appearance (i.e., actual body image) and the desired ideal state of the body (i.e ...
De Houwer, Jan +2 more
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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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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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A Self-determination Theory Approach to the Study of Body Image Concerns, Self-presentation and Self-perceptions in a Sample of Aerobic Instructors [PDF]
This study examined motivational predictors of body image concerns, self-presentation and self-perceptions using Self-determination Theory as a guiding framework. Aerobic instructors (N = 149) completed questionnaires measuring general need satisfaction,
Ntoumanis, Nikos +1 more
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Body Image and Body Dysmorphic Concerns
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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The research aims to analyze the discursive modes, procedures influenced by production conditions , interpreting conditions and speech conditions, on the relationship between the body and the videographic expression. This way we will discuss a path built
Danillo Barata
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Body image (BI) disturbance is a relevant factor in the etiology and treatment of eating disorders (ED). Although progress has been made in recent decades in understanding BI and its relationship with ED, the efficacy of BI disturbance prevention and ...
Diana Burychka +2 more
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