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Mindfulness as a Protective Factor Against Orthorexia: The Mediating Role of Body Image Anxiety. [PDF]

open access: yesBehav Sci (Basel)
Pappa M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Associations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adults [PDF]

open access: yesBody Image, 2021
Studies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social physique anxiety. To overcome these gaps in the literature, we asked an online sample of 501 heterosexual emerging adults from the ...
Adrian Furnham   +2 more
exaly   +13 more sources

Social physique anxiety and physical activity in early adolescent girls: The influence of maturation and physical activity motives [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Sports Sciences, 2009
This study considered the influence of maturation on social physique anxiety (SPA), the relationship between SPA and current and future physical activity (PA) levels and the influence of motives for physical activity on this relationship in early ...
Ailsa Niven, Samantha G. Fawkner
exaly   +5 more sources

Coping with Social Physique Anxiety in Adolescence

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2006
To explore how adolescents cope with social physique anxiety.Participants were 398 female (mean age of 15.4 years, SD = 1.3) and 223 male (mean age of 15.4 years, SD = 1.1) adolescents who provided open-ended responses to a self-identified situation in which they experienced social physique anxiety.
Kent C Kowalski   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Social Physique Anxiety in Postmenopausal Women

Journal of Women & Aging, 1998
Social physique anxiety (SPA), the degree to which individuals become anxious when others observe their bodies, is an important concept for postmenopausal women because it may be directly related to their physical activity behavior. Women with high levels of social physique anxiety may not participate in health-enhancing physical activity.
L B, Ransdell   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Social Physique Anxiety Scale

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 1993
Hart, Leary, and Rejeski have developed the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPA), a measure of the anxiety experienced in response to having one's physique evaluated by other people. The present study cross-validated the psychometric properties of this measure in a sample (N = 236) of adolescent competitive female gymnasts. Employing structural equation
E, McAuley, G, Burman
openaire   +2 more sources

Achievement goals in Turkish high school PE setting: The predicting role of social physique anxiety

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The objectives of this study were to determine high school students' achievement goals and social physique anxiety level according to gender and grade level and to examine the role of social physique anxiety in predicting achievement goals.
Yunus Arslan
exaly   +2 more sources

Tie Measurement of Social Physique Anxiety

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1989
A 12-item self-report scale was developed to assess the degree to which people become anxious when others observe or evaluate their physiques. The Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) demonstrated both high internal and test-retest reliability. It also correlated appropriately with concerns regarding others' evaluations and with feelings about one's ...
Elizabeth A. Hart   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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