Body Image, Social Physique Anxiety Levels and Self-Esteem among Adults Participating in Physical Activity Programs [PDF]
Diseases, 2023 (1) Background: individuals may benefit from being involved in physical and athletic activities in order to improve their body appearance and promote their physical and mental health.
Afroditi Zartaloudi +10 more
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Social physique anxiety and physical activity [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Social Physique Anxiety is defined as an emotional response that reflects individuals’ concerns regarding the way their body may be observed or judged by others. Objectives To explore the relationship between physical activity and social
A. Zartaloudi, D. Christopoulos
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Research on the Influence of Media Internalized Pressure on College Students’ Sports Participation—Chained Intermediary Analysis of Social Physique Anxiety and Weight Control Self-Efficacy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Purpose: Discuss the relationship among college students’ media internalized pressure, social physique anxiety, weight control self-efficacy, and sports participation in providing a reference for promoting college students to develop healthy and ...
Yiyi Ouyang +5 more
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The Association of Muscle Dysmorphia, Social Physique Anxiety, and Body Checking Behavior in Male College Students With Weight Exercise [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Objectives: To investigate the association between muscle dysmorphia (MD), social physique anxiety, and body-checking behavior in male college students with weight exercise, and to reveal the association between them.Methods: A total of 492 male college ...
Yu Zheng +3 more
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Validation of a Virtual Environment to Induce State Social Physique Anxiety in Women with Obesity and Social Physique Anxiety. [PDF]
J Clin Med, 2023 State Social Physique Anxiety (SPA), in contrast to Trait SPA, is triggered by specific situations that elicit SPA. To date, no research has used virtual reality (VR) to recreate a situation that may elicit State SPA. The purpose of this study is to validate a virtual environment (VE) that simulates an anxiogenic situation to induce State SPA in women ...
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An investigation of relationships between body compassion, social physique anxiety and physical appearance perfectionism in young people from Iran [PDF]
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023 Background Previous studies have shown that physical appearance perfectionism could play an important role in social physique anxiety; however, the moderating role of body compassion has not been studied.
Abbas Abdollahi +10 more
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Study on the mediator role of self-esteem in the relationship between female self-objectification and social physique anxiety [PDF]
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2023 BACKGROUND: Women's perception of body image plays an important role in their psychological health; self-objectification and social physique anxiety can affect self-esteem.
Hassan Bagherinia, Seyed A Saghebi
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Media Internalized Pressure and Restrained Eating Behavior in College Students: The Multiple Mediating Effects of Body Esteem and Social Physique Anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 BackgroundRestrained eating behavior has become the norm in college students' lives, and considering the harm it causes to college students, it is necessary to explore the factors associated with it.
Tiantian Fu +4 more
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My Exposed Body: Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale-7 among Women [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Background: Social Physique Anxiety (SPA) is the anxiety resulting from the prospect or presence of the interpersonal evaluation of one’s physique. It is a construct related to body image and body esteem. The Social Physique Anxiety Scale-7 (SPAS-7) is a
Giulia Rosa Policardo +3 more
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The effects of physical activity on social physique anxiety in college students—the mediating and moderating role of mental toughness and negative physical self [PDF]
BMC PsychologyPurpose To examine the effects of physical activity on college students' social physique anxiety and the mediating and moderating roles of negative physical self and mental toughness in it, and to provide empirical evidence that physical activity ...
Yong Jiang, Xiaoyu Wang
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