Objective: Poor body image is a public health issue. Mothers are a key influence on adolescents’ body image. This study evaluated an accessible, scalable, low-intensity internetbased intervention delivered to mothers (Dove Self-Esteem Project Website for Parents) on mothers’ and their adolescent daughters’ body image and psychosocial well-being. Methods: British mother-daughter dyads (N=235) pa...

There is increasing interest in understanding what role, if any, sex and sexual orientation play in body dissatisfaction, its correlates to distress, and its relationship to disordered eating. The goals of the present study were to examine: (a) differences in sex and sexual orientation in internalization of societal pressure to modify physical appearance, components of body image dissatisfactio...

OBJECTIVE Eating disorders are an increasingly prevalent health problem among adolescent girls. It is well known that biological, psychosocial, and family-related factors interact in the development of this group of disorders. However, the mechanisms underlying the interaction between these variables are still poorly understood, especially in Portuguese adolescents. The aim of this study was to...

BACKGROUND Despite the numerous physiological, psychological, and academic benefits of physical activity (PA), declines in PA levels among girls have been observed over the last decade. The purpose of this preliminary study was to assess the short-term changes pertaining to Girls on the Run and Girls on Track developmentally focused youth sport programs (DYS) on global self-esteem, body image, ...

AIM Definition of factors influencing negative body image among obese women and analysis of the relationship between body dissatisfaction and personality variables. METHOD 63 patients participated in this study. The mean age of the obese subjects was 41.90 years (SD +/- 12.23) and the mean body mass index (BMI) was 37.09 kg/m2 (SD +/- 8.09). The control group consisted of 60 women with normal...

The present research tested the hypothesis that the negative effects of weight stigma among higher body-weight individuals are mediated by expectations of social rejection. Women and men who varied in objective body-weight (body mass index; BMI) gave a speech describing why they would make a good date. Half believed that a potential dating partner would see a videotape of their speech (weight s...

A growing body of longitudinal studies suggests that low self-esteem is a risk factor for depression. However, it is unclear whether other characteristics of self-esteem, besides its level, explain incremental or even greater variance in subsequent depression. We examined the prospective effects of self-esteem level, instability (i.e., the degree of variability in self-esteem across short perio...

The individual's perception of body self-image influences their well-being, self-esteem, physical and mental health quality life. This study aimed to analyze self-esteem based on beauty standards, carried out through field research, with a descriptive nature quantitative-qualitative approach, sample 128 participants, four instruments used collect data. data: sociodemographic questionnaire; Rose...

OBJECTIVE This experimental study investigated the impact of peers on palatable food intake of youngsters within a social media setting. To determine whether this effect was moderated by self-esteem, the present study examined the roles of global explicit self-esteem (ESE), body esteem (BE) and implicit self-esteem (ISE). METHODS Participants (N = 118; 38.1% boys; M age 11.14±.79) were asked ...