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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"thin-ideal"”.
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The Thin Ideal and Body Positivity: How Do Influencers Affect Female Instagram Users?
… also been an increase of exposure to body image ideals via photos shared online. Accordingly, it has become more important to understand the association between social media and how its users view their body image, as well as how social media users’ practices are affected by posted pictures. …
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Beautiful People: The Past, Present, and Future of the Fashion Industry's Thin Ideal
… relevant topic in the last decade. The “ideal” female body image and what a person should look like according to marketing and advertising has become a highly controversial issue. This project seeks to show how the fashion industry has, over centuries, shaped how people think they need to …
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The Effects of Media Exposure on Body Satisfaction, Beliefs About Attractiveness, Mood and Bulimic Symptomatology Among College Women
… the adverse effects of media exposure to the thin ideal including internalization of the thin-ideal, negative affect, and body dissatisfaction. The purpose of this study was to extend initial research of Stice and Shaw (1994) by incorporating two forms of media (e.g., TV and Magazines) to …
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Body image dissatisfaction among late adolescent females : an examination of cultural and development factors
… the relationship between media exposure to the thin ideal and body image dissatisfaction. The second inquired into the unique contribution of media exposure to the thin ideal, the feminine sex role orientation, a lack of individuation, autonomy deficits, and sex role identity development on body …
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The Effects of Appearance-Based Reality Shows on Body Image
… of attractiveness; especially in reinforcing the thin ideal for females. There is strong evidence indicating that females who are more likely to make appearance comparisons with thin images in the media often experience negative outcomes. Research has shown that increased exposure to thin images …
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The Analysis of Selective Information Processing and Neuropsychological Functioning in Individuals At-Risk for Eating Disorders: The Use of a Pictorial Adaptation to the Stroop Paradigm, Using Print Media Advertisements
… and internalization of sociocultural mores of thinness, and are more vulnerable to negative influence from laboratory exposure to stimuli representing “thin ideal” stereotypes. The present study examined a possible common link between the characterological and neuropsychological features of …
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Testing an integrated body image media model : focusing on a cross-cultural comparison between US and Korean college women
… outcomes (self-efficacy and perfectionism). Thin ideal media exposure predicted cognitive outcomes for U.S. women, body image disturbance and behavioral intentions for both U.S. and Korean women. No significant link was found in emotional outcomes. Thin ideal media exposure and body image …
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Innovative Interventions for Disordered Eating: A Pilot Comparison Between Dissonance-Based and Yoga Interventions
… principles of cognitive dissonance to reduce thin-ideal internalization among women at risk for eating disorders. Additionally, the benefits of yoga, including increased awareness of bodily processes, offer hope that this practice might reduce disordered eating symptomatology. The current …
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Modeling eating pathology: The role of gender, sociocultural, and individual factors
… pathology. Sociocultural variables, such as thin-ideal internalization, and individual factors, such as perfectionism and experiential avoidance, were also evaluated. A sample of 257 female and 165 male undergraduates (<em>n</em> = 423) completed a battery of surveys online. Structural …
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Can You Pinch More Than An Inch: Understanding Representations of the Healthy Woman in Special K Advertisements
… to why women's attainment and maintenance of the thin ideal is continuously necessitated within North American media culture. An ethnographic content analysis of Special K television advertisements from the past ten years reveals the latent cultural values that necessitate all women's perpetual …
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Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? The Effect of Protagonist Body Esteem and Body Weight in Novels on Female Readers' Body Esteem
The effects of visual representations of the thin ideal in movies, magazines, and television have been widely explored, but strictly textual representations of the thin ideal in novels have received scant attention. The genre of chick literature has been criticized for depicting characters that …
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The role of idealised image features in determining post-exposure body image and social comparisons
This research examined the role that idealised image characteristics have in determining post-exposure body image and amount of self-reported social comparisons. This was tested by exposing female undergraduate students to media-portrayed idealised images that varied in their level of relevance, …
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College Women and Disordered Eating Symptomatology: A Relational-Cultural Perspective
… that the variables of sociocultural pressure for thinness, internalization of the thin ideal, and body dissatisfaction uniquely predicted significant variance in disordered eating. Perceived mutuality and self-silencing did not predict significant, unique variance in disordered eating. However, …
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An investigation of the relationship of locus of control and self-monitoring to body image in athletic populations
… Males tended to have lower drive for thinness linked with lower fat anxiety as compared to females. Females associated body dissatisfaction with perception of weight. In females, self-monitoring was correlated with feelings of physical attractiveness. Findings support previous …
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Zaftig: A Magazine Prototype and Accompanying Business Plan
… there is no voice or home for plus-sized women within the mainstream media. The media industry reflects and promotes an increasingly thin ideal, one that multiple studies have concluded is causing negatiVe self-perception and low self-esteem among young women nationwide. This is especially true …
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Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?
… sorority social norms regarding the body and thinness, personal values regarding the body and thinness, body 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 …
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‘Healthy schools’ and Childhood Obesity: provision and perspectives within an extended services cluster on psychsocial outcomes for children and young people who are overweight or obese
… ‘National Healthy Schools Programme’ (NHSP) within a cluster of schools, and with their community and strategic partners. Stakeholders’ perspectives including those of pupils were sought to illuminate whether, as a result of the NHSP, the potential risk of unintended harm was recognised and …
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Testing An Intervention To Address The Sociocultural Influence Of Mass Media On Body Image: Can We Reverse The Curse?
The adverse effects of exposure to unrealistic ideals in the media are well documented, however, this is the first study to explore the possibility that women may experience improvement in body image and affect via social comparison to women with realistic, non-ideal body shape and size. Using …
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An Examination of Social Media and the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image Disturbance
… relationships with appearance comparisons and thin ideal internalization. A form of media gaining recent attention is social media. Although there is limited research on social media and body image, studies suggest that use of social media is related to body dissatisfaction and eating disorder …
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Multidimensional Acculturation Among South Asians: Factor Structure of the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (VIA) and Relationship to Eating and Body-Image Disturbance
… with eating and body-image pathology through thin-ideal internalization. Results indicated that neither mainstream nor heritage acculturation are wholly protective or harmful in their association with eating and body-image pathology among South Asian students. Clinical implications, including …
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