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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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Instagram Use and Endorsement of a Voluptuous Body Ideal: A Serial Mediation Model
Most studies on the effects of social media on young women’s ideal body image and self-perceptions are focused on the exposure to thinness and/or...
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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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Am I thin enough? Social media use and the ideal body stereotype: The mediating role of perceived socio-cultural pressure and the moderating role of cognitive fusion
Previous research investigated the role of social media use and perceived socio-cultural pressure as predictors of the endorsement of ideal body...
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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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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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Beyond Desirable in North America: an examination of actual and ideal body preferences, and body attractiveness preferences in a heterosexual sample of men and women from the USA
A recent Australian study demonstrated that both men and women want to have less body fat and more muscularity than they perceived that they had, and...
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Sociocultural pressures towards the thin and mesomorphic body ideals and their impact on the eating and exercise-related body change strategies of early adolescents: a longitudinal study
For decades, the thin body ideal has been the prevailing female standard of beauty, while the mesomorphic body ideal has been the accepted male...
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Testing the discrepancy between actual and ideal body image with the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP)
BackgroundThe discrepancy between actual and ideal body image is considered an index of body dissatisfaction and a risk factor for eating disorders....
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A serial mediation model of attentional engagement with thin bodies on body dissatisfaction: The role of appearance comparisons and rumination
The present study examined the associations among biased attentional responding to thin-ideal bodies, appearance comparisons, eating...
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Being Able to Describe How One Thinks and Feels May (Partly) Attenuate the Association Between Perceived body Image Discrepancy and Body Dissatisfaction: Preliminary Evidence in Young Women
Perceived discrepancies between how one’s body looks and how one wishes their body looked are positively associated with body dissatisfaction,...
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The Curvy Ideal Silhouette Scale: Measuring Cultural Differences in the Body Shape Ideals of Young U.S. Women
Cultural trends in the United States may be shifting toward a curvy body ideal (defined as a body with a small waist and wider hips, such that the...
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Body Image Within Temporal and Spatial Eye Movement Patterns
Attentional bias towards thin and overweight human bodies is a common feature related to body image in women. However, experimental paradigms based...
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Estimates and Correlates of Eating Disorders in Romanian Female Adolescents from Transnational Families Compared to Non-Left-behind Female Adolescents
Romanian emigration rates are among the highest in Europe. This cross-sectional study estimates the prevalence of full-threshold eating disorders...
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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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Chinese TikTok (Douyin) challenges and body image concerns: a pilot study
BackgroundSocial media content on Western platforms promoting thinness, or thinspiration , has been found to negatively affect body image perception...
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Feasibility of a Loving Kindness Intervention for Mitigating Weight Stigma in Nursing Students: A Focus on Self-Compassion
ObjectivesPreliminary research on self-compassion as a target for reducing forms of bias is promising, yet healthcare provider self-compassion has...
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Sexy, Thin, and White: The Intersection of Sexualization, Body Type, and Race on Stereotypes about Women
Media images often present one idealized type of woman: she is thin, sexualized, and White. Although research has shown that there are stereotypes...
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Further evidence of the association between social media use, eating disorder pathology and appearance ideals and pressure: a cross-sectional study in Norwegian adolescents
BackgroundFew studies have investigated how the plethora of contemporary social media (SM) platforms relate to, and influence eating disorder (ED)...