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The fit beauty ideal: A healthy alternative to thinness or a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
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Anecdotal testimony suggests the 'fit' female body ideal is 'healthier' than the thin ideal, because it simultaneously focuses on muscularity. However, statistical investigation into the outcomes associated with fit ideal internalisation is absent. Moderation analyses were used to investigate whether concurrent muscular internalisation mitigated the relationship between thin internalisation and; negative affect, body dissatisfaction, bulimic symptoms, and dieting. Further analyses were used to investigate whether concurrent thin internalisation amplified the relationship between muscular internalisation, compulsive exercise, and supplement use. No significant interaction was found on any of the outcome variables. Thus, the results suggest that incorporating muscularity into an ideal of thinness does not mitigate the detrimental eating and affective outcomes commonly associated with pursuing thinness. Equally, incorporating an ideal of thinness into one of muscularity does not appear to alter the detrimental behavioural outcomes commonly associated with pursuing muscularity. Such findings do not suggest fit internalisation is healthy for women.
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“This body type is potentially even harder to achieve than a thin body and can lead to greater dissatisfaction than the previous thin female ideal (Uhlmann et al., 2018), with links to negative psychological outcomes (Cunningham et al., 2019).”
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“Interestingly, in isolation, the muscular ideal has been found to be associated with lower body dissatisfaction, yet this association is no longer significant when simultaneously including thin ideal internalization (Uhlmann et al., 2018).”
From Incorporating social media and muscular ideal internalization into the tripartite influence model of body image: Towards a modern understanding of adolescent girls’ body dissatisfaction (2022) · cites this paper as Uhlmann et al., 2018
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Metadata
- Authors
- Uhlmann, L. R., Donovan, C. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Bell, H. S., & Ramme, R. A.
- Affiliations
- Griffith University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Uhlmann, Laura R.
- Venue
- Body Image
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-06
- Volume
- 25
- Pages
- 23-30
- ISSN
- 1740-1445 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2791945079
- Cited by
- 149
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 24.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Body Image (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Keywords
- thin ideal, muscularity, body dissatisfaction, bulimic symptoms, dieting, compulsive exercise, supplement use, negative affect, women
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Beauty, Body Image, Eating, Emotions, Female, Humans, Personal Satisfaction, Thinness, Health Behavior, Exercise, Young Adult
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