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Adolescent Body Image and Psychosocial Functioning
Abstract
Researchers have highlighted the significance of a poor body image in the development of dysfunctional eating but have systematically investigated few other outcomes. The authors examined the relationships between different aspects of body image and psychosocial functioning. Participants were 245 boys and 173 girls from Grades 8 and 9 (M age = 13.92 years, SD = 0.69 years). Respondents completed measures of physical attractiveness, body satisfaction, body image importance, body image behaviors, appearance comparison, social physique anxiety, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and same-sex and opposite-sex relations. Whereas girls tended to report a more negative body image than did boys, the relevance of body image to self-esteem was similar for boys and girls. Concern about others' evaluation of their bodies was especially important in understanding low female self-esteem, whereas for boys, ratings of general attractiveness most strongly predicted self-esteem. The authors found a negative body image to be unrelated to symptoms of negative affect but to be strongly associated with poor opposite-sex peer relationships, especially among boys. A negative body image also affected same-sex relations among girls.
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“As Davison and McCabe [35] have shown, concerns about others’ negative appearance-based evaluation play a crucial role in determining body-related self-worth, which can outweigh one’s own judgments of her body.”
From Effects of Social Media and Smartphone Use on Body Esteem in Female Adolescents: Testing a Cognitive and Affective Model (2020) · cites this paper as [35]
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“Consequently, these cognitive comparison processes foster greater anxiety regarding appearance-related negative evaluation by others and one’s perceived inadequacies—which, in turn, impairs body esteem in female adolescents”
From Effects of Social Media and Smartphone Use on Body Esteem in Female Adolescents: Testing a Cognitive and Affective Model (2020) · cites this paper as [35]
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“cross-sectional studies have shown that adolescent girls are considerably more prone to negative body evaluations and heightened self-consciousness about others’ evaluations of their bodies than adolescent boys [35].”
From Effects of Social Media and Smartphone Use on Body Esteem in Female Adolescents: Testing a Cognitive and Affective Model (2020) · cites this paper as [35]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Davison, T. E., & McCabe, M. P.
- Affiliations
- Deakin University (AU)
- Venue
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 15-30
- ISSN
- 0022-4545 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-1183
- OpenAlex
- W2006846441
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Keywords
- adolescent body image, psychosocial functioning, self-esteem, physical attractiveness, body satisfaction, appearance comparison, social physique anxiety, gender differences, depression, anxiety
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Body Image, Child, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Regression Analysis, Self Concept, Sex Factors, Social Adjustment, Victoria, Multivariate Analysis
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