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Body discontent during puberty worse in whites.(Clinical Rounds)(Brief article)
WASHINGTON -- Pubertal changes were more likely to trigger body dissatisfaction in white girls than in African American girls in a study of 331 girls, reported Tiffany Floyd, Ph.D., in a poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Previous studies have shown that body dissatisfaction during puberty is more common among girls than among boys--because pubertal changes conflict with the idealized image of the thin female--and that this increase in body dissatisfaction may promote depression.
However, additional research has shown that larger female body types are more desirable and acceptable among African Americans than they are among whites, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Body discontent during puberty worse in whites.(Clinical...