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Media exposure drives how satisfied women and girls are about body image.
2004 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Media exposure drives how satisfied women and girls are about body image.
"Brief exposure to thin-ideal media images has been shown to have a small but consistent negative impact on women and girls' body dissatisfaction. The present study aimed to examine the consequence of these small changes in body dissatisfaction for the development of body image over time. A sample of 80 adolescents (mean age = 17.2 years) completed measures of body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and drive for muscularity," scientists writing in the journal European Eating Disorders Review report.
"Two years earlier they had viewed either 20 appearance-related television commercials (containing female thin ideals) or 20 non-appearance commercials as part of an experimental study. For girls, initial body dissatisfaction change in response to viewing appearance commercials at time 1 predicted subsequent body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness 2 years later, above and beyond the variance predicted by initial body dissatisfaction," wrote D. Hargreaves and colleagues, Flinders University of South Australia, School of ...
- Study Shows How Body Dissatisfaction Can Lead to Eating Disorders.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire June 14, 2004 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Sex Roles: A Journal of Research Jung, Jaehee Forbes, Gordon B. July 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Body dissatisfaction alone isn't a reliable indicator of an eating disorder.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week July 5, 2004 700+ words
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- Neighbourhood level versus individual level correlates of women's body...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health McLaren, L. Gauvin, L. March 1, 2002 700+ words
...influences. The eating disorders and related symptoms (body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint...between affluence and body dissatisfaction. The role of body dissatisfaction as a risk factor in the eating disorders underlies a substantial...
- A preliminary survey of dieting, body dissatisfaction, and eating problems...
- Magazine article from: Journal of School Health Thompson, Sharon H. Digsby, Sohailla March 1, 2004 700+ words
...dieting, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders among high...dieting, body dissatisfaction, and subclinical...clinical eating disorders among high...dieting, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders? 2) Do...
- Body Dissatisfaction in Women and Men: The Role of Gender-Typing and...
- Magazine article from: Sex Roles: A Journal of Research Forbes, Gordon B. Adams-Curtis, Leah E. Rade, Brooke Jaberg, Peter April 1, 2001 700+ words
...higher risk for eating disorders. Lancelot and...orientation is related to body dissatisfaction and chronic dieting...types and clinical eating disorders. Although the...gender type and body dissatisfaction is fairly well...
- The contribution of emotion regulation to body dissatisfaction and disordered...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Youth and Adolescence Sim, Leslie Zeman, Janice April 1, 2006 700+ words
...normative levels of body dissatisfaction may be differentiated...development of eating disorders has received...a risk for eating disorders (Killen et...prospective studies, body dissatisfaction has been found...relationship between body dissatisfaction ...
- National Eating Disorders Association Announces 16th Annual 'Eating Disorders...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 27, 2003 700+ words
...eating and body dissatisfaction through a...tie-ins. Eating disorders such as anorexia...increase in body dissatisfaction and eating disorders among pre...eliminating eating disorders and body dissatisfaction through a...
- The National Eating Disorders Association Announces the Nation's First...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 13, 2003 700+ words
...to increased body dissatisfaction on girls and...the Media and Eating Disorders: The View from...The National Eating Disorders Association...elimination of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction. NEDA develops...
- Anger, eating disorders, and college.(Clinical Capsules)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Foley, Kevin December 1, 2005 700+ words
Anger management may help in treating eating disorders in obese, college-age students of both...female subjects reported higher levels of eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, and self-dissatisfaction and more frequent...
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