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Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment of Body Image Disturbance
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The Scope of Body Image Disturbance - the Big Picture An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Strategies Sociocultural Theory - the Media and Society Social Comparison Processes Appearance-Related Feedback Interpersonal Factors Peers, Parents and Perfect Strangers Feminist Perspectives Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment Behavioural Aspects of Disturbances - Conditioning, Context and Avoidance Cognitive Processing Models Future Directions - Integrative Theories, Multidimensional Assessment and Multicomponent InterventionsAbstract:
The Scope of Body Image Disturbance - the Big Picture An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Strategies Sociocultural Theory - the Media and Society Social Comparison Processes Appearance-Related Feedback Interpersonal Factors Peers, Parents and Perfect Strangers Feminist Perspectives Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment Behavioural Aspects of Disturbance - Conditioning, Context and Avoidance Cognitive Processing Models Future Directions - Integrative Theories, Multidimensional Assessment and Multicomponent Interventionsread more
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The effect of experimental presentation of thin media images on body satisfaction: a meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: Results support the sociocultural perspective that mass media promulgate a slender ideal that elicits body dissatisfaction that supports prevention and research on social comparison processes.
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Role of body dissatisfaction in the onset and maintenance of eating pathology: a synthesis of research findings.
Eric Stice,Heather Shaw +1 more
TL;DR: Support is provided for the claim that sociocultural processes foster body dissatisfaction, which in turn increase the risk for bulimic pathology, and it is suggested that prevention and treatment interventions might be enhanced by focusing greater attention on body image disturbances.
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Thin-Ideal Internalization: Mounting Evidence for a New Risk Factor for Body-Image Disturbance and Eating Pathology:
J. Kevin Thompson,Eric Stice +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that internalization is a causal risk factor for body-image and eating disorders, and that it appears to operate in conjunction with other established risk factors for these outcomes, including dieting and negative affect.
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A prospective test of the dual-pathway model of bulimic pathology: mediating effects of dieting and negative affect.
TL;DR: Results are consistent with the assertion that pressure to be thin, thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, and negative affect are risk factors for bulimic pathology and provide support for the dual-pathway model.
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The sociocultural attitudes towards appearance scale-3 (SATAQ-3): development and validation.
TL;DR: The SATAQ-3 measures multiple aspects of a societal influence and should prove useful for basic risk factor work as well as for gauging the efficacy of prevention and treatment programs.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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