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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Fat talk"”.
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The impacts of exposure to fat talk and fat talk challenging through social media on women
Fat talk, conversations including peers mutually degrading their own bodies, has become increasingly commonplace among women in the United States (U.S.). Decades of research has revealed fat talk conversations result in increased body dissatisfaction. With the popularity of social networking sites, …
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The impacts of exposure to fat talk and fat talk challenging through social media on women
Fat talk, conversations including peers mutually degrading their own bodies, has become increasingly commonplace among women in the United States (U.S.). Decades of research has revealed fat talk conversations result in increased body dissatisfaction. With the popularity of social networking sites, …
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Fat Talk Between Friends: Co-Rumination About Physical Appearance
… In the body image literature, the term "fat talk" was coined to describe a negative, appearance focused dialogue that takes place in the context of female social circles. There have been no studies examining the "fat talk" phenomenon within the context of close female friendships. The …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Factors that Lead to Fat Talk
Fat talk describes self-disparaging remarks made about ones weight or shape. Despite the fact that fat talk has been associated with a number of negative outcomes including eating pathology, fat talk has become a social norm and many women engage in it on a regular basis. The factors that lead …
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Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?
… dissatisfaction, thin ideal internalization, fat talk, negative affect, and positive affect among sorority and non-sorority women. The aims of this study are to discern the underlying factor structures of the sorority/group social norms questionnaires and the personal values regarding the body …
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'Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com', an Auto/Biographical Study of Relationships with Food.
… the family, healthy eating, eating disorders, ‘fat’ bodies and elite foodways. Hence, feeding the family ‘healthy’ meals ‘prepared from scratch’ was considered a means of acquiring social, symbolic and cultural capital. ‘Fat’ talk and ‘lipoliteracy’ or learning to read the body were ways of …
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On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
… of 'respectability' and 'purity', consumerism, fat talk, and persistent gender roles. Further, possible influences of dominant systems on space (particularly in reinforcing persistent social segregation in Secunda) are demonstrated. Symbolic violence can be used to deflect accountability, but …
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Yummy Mummies, baby bumps and body image : shaping 'Postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia
… study exploring feelings about body image and `fatness' in a sample of 38 pregnant women living in Melbourne. Framed within discourses of social surveillance, biomedicine, and celebrity, the thesis argues that the most important articulations of body image were located in `private' and `public' …
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Interaction between body talk in romantic relationships and body dissatisfaction on unhealthy body change behaviors
… be associated with body dissatisfaction and body talk. However, individuals’ body talk with their romantic partner has not been well examined. The current study investigated the relationships between body talk with a romantic partner, gender, and body dissatisfaction with body change strategies, …