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Body image distortions in pre-adolescents and preventative programs: a literature review [PDF]

, 2002
Plan BThe purpose of this study was to determine whether elementary students are experiencing poor body images and also to see if preventative services related to this area have been reported as being effective.
Hitchcock, Beth
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More than skin deep: body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex [PDF]

, 2010
The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to create more abstract representations related to the body are less clear.
Longo, Matthew R., Azanon, E., Haggard, P.   +2 more
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Body perception and evaluation in anorexia nervosa [PDF]

, 2015
Body image disturbance is a prominent feature in anorexia nervosa (AN) and encompasses alterations across the different dimensions of body image, that is, perception, affect, cognition, and behaviour.
LUTZ, Annika
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Body-image and -size perception after a single session of HIIT body work in healthy adult men

Motricidade, 2018
It was our objective to analyze the effects of a single session of whole body HIIT on body-image and -scheme parameters of healthy adult men. Twenty-one active, healthy adults performed high-intensity intermittent training based on full body exercise ...
Roberta L Rica, João M Miranda, Alexandre F Machado, Alexandre L Evangelista, Cauê La Scala Teixeira, Eliane F Gama, Graça Pinto, Victor Machado Reis, Danilo S Bocalini   +8 more
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Body image perception, compliance with a prosthesis and cognitive performance in transfemoral amputees

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica, 2019
Objective: The aim of the study was to assess mutual associations of body image perception, compliance with the prosthesis and cognitive performance in transfemoral amputees.
Suheda Gozaydinoglu, Zeynep Hosbay, Hayati Durmaz   +2 more
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Predictive model of the relationship between social support, body image perception, and physical activity among university students

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This cross-sectional study explored the relationship between social support, body image perception, and physical activity among university students.
Xuejiao Gao, Xiaolin Wang, Chen Soon Chee, Shamsulariffin bin Samsudin, Muhammad Zarif Hassan, Luhong Ma, Pan Liu, Yuming Zhang   +7 more
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A study to determine the effect of the media on the perception of adolescent female body image and the resultant relationship to academic achievement [PDF]

, 2002
Plan BThe purpose of this study was to explore the various issues of body image, and the perceptions that the average adolescent female has about her physical and mental image.
DeLaMater, Jody L.
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Embodied Image: Gender differences in functional and aesthetic body image among Australian adolescents

, 2010
Perceptions of the body are not restricted to the way the body “looks”; they may also extend to the way the body “functions”. This research explores body image among male and female adolescents using the Embodied Image Scale (EIS), which incorporates ...
Abbott, Bree D., Abbott, Bree D, Barber, Bonnie L, Barber, Bonnie L.   +3 more
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ANALYSIS OF BODY IMAGE PERCEPTION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN NAVARRA

, 2015
Introduction: Current models of beauty represent an extreme thinness in the women and a muscular body in the men. The body image perception will condition the search of ideal beauty through different behaviors and can be transform in eating disorders ...
Soto Ruiz, Nelia, Serrano Monzó , Immaculada, Guillén-Grima , Francisco, Kraemer, Alexander, Stock, Christiane, Aguinaga Ontoso , Ines, Annan, James, Canga Armayor , Navidad, de Mendoza Cantón , Juan Hermoso, Marin Fernández , Blanca, de Mendoza Canton, Juana Hermoso, Aguinaga Ontoso, Ines, Guillen-Grima, Francisco, Serrano Monzo, Inmaculada, Krämer, Alexander ; https://orcid.org/, Soto Ruiz, Ma Nelia, Marin Fernandez, Blanca, Canga Armayor, Navidad   +17 more
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Categorical perception of tactile distance [PDF]

, 2014
The tactile surface forms a continuous sheet covering the body. And yet, the perceived distance between two touches varies across stimulation sites. Perceived tactile distance is larger when stimuli cross over the wrist, compared to when both fall on ...
Longo, Matthew R., Bremner, Andrew, Bremner, AJ, Bremner, Andrew; id_orcid, Bremner, Andrew J., Knight, FLC, Longo, M. R., Bremner, A.J., Le Cornu Knight, Frances, Longo, MR, Knight, Frances, Le Cornu Knight, F., Longo, Matthew   +12 more
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