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Cultural adaptation of an integrated eating disorders prevention and healthy weight management program
BackgroundBoth eating disorder (ED) prevention and weight management interventions often focus on the thin ideal. Yet, many Black and Latina women do...
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Depression, Self-Esteem, and Disordered Eating among Pakistani Adolescent Girls: The Mediating Role of Appearance Comparison and Internalization of Appearance Ideals
Although the link of depression and self-esteem with disordered eating is well reported in literature, there is insufficient insight into the...
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Social network addiction symptoms and body dissatisfaction in young women: exploring the mediating role of awareness of appearance pressure and internalization of the thin ideal
BackgroundPrevious studies testing for a direct relationship between social networking sites (SNS) addiction and body dissatisfaction (BD) have...
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The cost of the perfect body: influence mechanism of internalization of media appearance ideals on eating disorder tendencies in adolescents
BackgroundSome studies have examined the relationship between internalization of media appearance ideals and eating disorders. However, few have...
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Psychometric properties of the Arabic versions of the Three-Item Short Form of the modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-3) and the Muscularity Bias Internalization Scale (MBIS)
BackgroundThere is a lack of psychometrically sound measures to assess internalized weight and muscularity biases among Arabic-speaking people. To...
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Associations of observer’s gender, Body Mass Index and internalization of societal beauty ideals to visual body processing
We examined whether visual processing mechanisms of the body of conspecifics are different in women and men and whether these rely on westernised...
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Can social appearance anxiety promote the online impulse buying of beauty products among young females? A moderated mediation model of sense of control and perceived coronavirus stress
Based on the Consumer Compensatory Behaviour Model (CCBM), this study aimed to apply a moderated mediation model to investigate the relationship...
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Does the media ideal internalization affect social appearance anxiety among male and female adolescents? The mediation of negative physical self
There is increasing scholarly interest in the effects of media on adolescents’ appearance. However, the results are inconsistent, and little is known...
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Sexual Objectification in Family of Origin Scale: Development and Psychometric Evaluation
In this article, we report the development and psychometric properties of scores on a new 8-item scale designed to assess women’s sexual...
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“Thinness is beauty”: Predictors of anti-fat attitudes among young Chinese women
Despite rapidly increasing numbers of overweight and obese individuals and a great emphasis on an idealized body shape (i.e., thinness) that have...
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The effects of media and peers on negative body image among Chinese college students: a chained indirect influence model of appearance comparison and internalization of the thin ideal
BackgroundNegative body image is a common psychological phenomenon among Chinese college students meriting investigation. Peers and the media are...
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Examining the Links Between Beauty Ideals Internalization, the Objectification of Women, and Ambivalent Sexism Among Chinese Women: The Effects of Sexual Orientation
The widespread propagation of beauty ideals has made their influence inescapable for women worldwide. Numerous studies have suggested the negative...
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Is a dissonance-based group intervention targeting thin-ideal internalization a successful potential add-on for specialized eating disorder care? A randomized feasibility and acceptability pilot study
BackgroundDissonance-based eating disorder programs have successfully targeted body dissatisfaction by challenging the thin beauty ideal in the...
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Differences among feminist and non-feminist women on weight bias internalization, body image, and disordered eating
BackgroundResearch yields mixed results on whether feminist beliefs or self-identification are protective against body image disturbance and eating...
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Selfie-editing among young Chinese women may have little to do with self-objectification
This pre-registered study assesses selfie editing and self-photo investment as outcome variables among young Chinese women from the perspective of...
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CULTURAL HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE AGE OF NEUROSCIENCE
In this paper I have chosen the topic of psychoanalysis in the age of neuroscience, with the aim of showing why the cultural history of...
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Pathways from media attention and peer communication to body dissatisfaction: the moderating role of protective filtering
BackgroundNegative body image is a common psychological phenomenon among young Chinese women, and merits further investigation. Peers and the media...
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Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Peer Television Co-viewing and Media Internalization in Adolescent Girls and Boys
Despite the potential of peers to reinforce cultural appearance ideals, little work on peer media co-viewing has focused on body image. This study...
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Camouflaged Protocols of Womanhood: Inherent Paradoxes of Bengal
Contemporary India is part of a global community where modernization and urbanization including consumerism is on the rise; but not leaving behind...
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Influence of objectification belief and consumerism culture on Chinese women’s views of cosmetic surgery
The overwhelming objectification environments and the burgeoning of consumerism have encouraged people to value their physical appearance. Previous...
