Beauty ideals and body positivity: a qualitative investigation of young women’s perspectives on social media content in China [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMuch of the existing knowledge regarding the impact of beauty ideals and body positive social media content on women’s body image is based on the Western cultural context. This limits our understanding of the issue in other cultures, such as China, among
Min Lang, Yiduo Ye
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The Role of BMI Group on the Impact of Weight Bias Versus Body Positivity Terminology on Behavioral Intentions and Beliefs: An Experimental Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This experimental study investigated the role of BMI on the impact of weight bias vs body positivity terminology on behavioral intentions and beliefs about obesity.
Sarah-Jane F. Stewart, Jane Ogden
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Relationship between body positivity and body neutrality with body image, self-esteem, mindfulness and gratitude [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDespite the growing popularity of body positivity and body neutrality on social media, their scientific differentiation remains unclear. Body positivity involves acceptance and a positive attitude toward one’s body regardless of societal ideals, whereas ...
Anna Lipińska
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Positive, Neutral, or Just Normal? A Focus Group Study on Adolescents’ Knowledge, Familiarity and Perceived Effectiveness of Body Positivity and Body Neutrality on Social Media [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesBody positivity and body neutrality are increasingly referred to as alternatives to the idealized body representations on social media. These images can play a powerful role in body image development during adolescence.
Gaëlle Ouvrein, Lara Schreurs
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Body Positivity, Physical Health, and Emotional Well-Being Discourse on Social Media: Content Analysis of Lizzo’s Instagram [PDF]
JMIR Formative ResearchBackgroundWeight stigma is a fundamental cause of health inequality. Body positivity may be a counterbalance to weight stigma. Social media is replete with weight-stigmatizing content and is a driver of poor mental health outcomes;
Stephanie L Albert +6 more
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Body Positivity and Self-Compassion on a Publicly Available Behavior Change Weight Management Program. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 McCallum M +5 more
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2023 IEEE 64th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2023 We study the problem of chasing positive bodies in $\ell_1$: given a sequence of bodies $K_{t}=\{x^{t}\in\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n}\mid C^{t}x^{t}\geq 1,P^{t}x^{t}\leq 1\}$ revealed online, where $C^{t}$ and $P^{t}$ are nonnegative matrices, the goal is to (approximately) maintain a point $x_t \in K_t$ such that $\sum_t \|x_t - x_{t-1}\|_1$ is minimized.
Sayan Bhattacharya +3 more
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Inhabiting the Body(ies) in Female Soccer Players: The Protective Role of Positive Body Image
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In a social and sports world dominated by weight-centred beliefs and highly exigent and gendered athletic and beauty body standards, the vulnerability for eating pathology, i.e., disordered eating and eating disorders (EDs), is elevated among women ...
Débora Godoy-Izquierdo +2 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Feminist activists and critical sport scholars in the global north have advocated for more inclusive representation of bodies and more accessible physical cultures. Body positivity, a contentious movement and concept, has been taken up in various ways by
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Face yourself: The social neuroscience of mirror gazing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In philosophical and psychological accounts alike, it has been claimed that mirror gazing is like looking at ourselves as others. Social neuroscience and social psychology offer support for this view by showing that we use similar brain and cognitive ...
Antonella Tramacere, Antonella Tramacere
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