Assessment of body image disturbance in children and adolescents.

Author(s):  
Rick M. Gardner
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Kerner ◽  
Leen Haerens ◽  
David Kirk

Body image disturbance in children and adolescents has negative implications for psychological and physical well-being. To positively impact well-being, it is important to explore factors that influence body image and to identify strategies that can be used to reduce body image disturbance. The school curriculum can play a significant role in shaping how children and adolescents experience their bodies. Within this school curriculum, physical education lessons represent one of the only school subjects in which the body is a focus of curricular outcomes. In physical education, the body is judged for physical ability but is also situated in a space that provides the potential for social comparisons and body judgements. Significant attention has been paid to the development of classroom-based interventions that aim at reducing body image disturbance, yet physical education has largely been ignored as a context in which one can effectively intervene. This paper reviews current knowledge on the relationship between physical education and body image disturbance by using the cognitive-behavioural model of body image developments as a guiding framework. It also considers the contribution that physical education could make to wider school-based interventions.


2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-412
Author(s):  
Patty E. Matz ◽  
Myles S. Faith

Author(s):  
Sunandar Macpal ◽  
Fathianabilla Azhar

The aims of this paper is to explain the use of high heels as an agency for a woman's body. Agency context refers to pain in the body but pain is perceived as something positive. In this paper, the method used is a literature review by reviewing writings related to the use of high heels. The findings in this paper that women experience body image disturbance or anxiety because they feel themselves are not beautiful or not attractive. The use of high heels, makes women more attractive and more confident, on the other hand the use of high heels actually makes women feel pain and discomfort. However, for the achievement of beauty standards, women voluntarily allow their bodies to experience pain. However, the agency's willingness to beauty standards here is meaningless without filtering and directly accepted. Instead women keep negotiating with themselves so as to make a decision why use high heels.


2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhui WANG ◽  
Zhenyong LYU ◽  
Hong CHEN ◽  
Shuangshuang WU ◽  
Zilun XIAO

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. 995.3-996
Author(s):  
M. Horita ◽  
D. Kaneda ◽  
A. Takeshita ◽  
T. Machida ◽  
R. Nakahara ◽  
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