Body Image Ideals Influenced by Prime-Time Television

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Analise Barker ◽  
Matthew Coffin ◽  
Tiffany Harris ◽  
Jon Cole
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Body Image Ideals

Attitudes about Antidepressants: Influence of Information about Weight-Related Side Effects

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Cash ◽  
Melissa A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
College Women ◽  
Antidepressant Drugs ◽  
Antidepressant Medications ◽  
Body Image Ideals ◽  
Clinical Populations

Antidepressant drugs are frequently prescribed for women and have various side effects, including potential effects on body weight. This experiment examined the effects of information about the weight-related side effects of antidepressants on women's attitudes toward the drugs. 60 college women were randomly assigned to read about one of two drugs, fluoxetine (Prozac) or Imipramine (Tofranil). Participants were either told or not told about veridical weight-related side effects, namely, weight loss for Prozac and weight gain for Tofranil. As hypothesized, weight-gain information lowered the personal acceptability of Tofranil, and weight-loss information enhanced the acceptability of Prozac. Although research with clinical populations is required, undergraduate women's decisions about the use of antidepressant medications may be influenced by societal body-image ideals.

Redefining Beauty

Taking Flight ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Jennifer Donahue
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Temporary Migration ◽  
Elizabeth Nunez ◽  
Body Image Ideals ◽  
The Relationship

The fourth chapter turns to works by Pauline Melville and Elizabeth Nunez to explore how breast cancer and anorexia nervosa offer physical and emotional renewal for the protagonists. In The Migration of Ghosts, Boundaries, and Anna-In-Between, Melville and Nunez use their characters to question body-image ideals. The works attest to the life-altering impact of disease. The protagonists’ illnesses, rooted in their dis-ease with their bodies, their relationships, and their privilege, highlight the emotional side effects that can accompany physical maladies. In Melville and Nunez’s works, illness functions as the force of inertia that propels temporary migration and the protagonists’ intensely introspective experiences. Together, the texts afford a closer look at the relationship between disease, migration, and familial reconnection.

scholarly journals Psychological concomitants of crossfit training

Kinesiology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferenc Köteles ◽  
Maria Kollsete ◽  
Hannah Kollsete
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Body Image Dissatisfaction ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Weekly Session ◽  
Crossfit Training ◽  
Body Image Ideals

The research aimed at studying relationships between characteristics of CrossFit training (time elapsed from starting with training, weekly session frequency) and indicators of well-being, self-esteem, body awareness, satisfaction with body image, and perceived body competence. Participants, 186 Norwegian individuals (57.5% female; mean age: 28.9±7.81 years) regularly participating in CrossFit, completed online surveys (WHO-5 Well-being Scale, PANAS, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Body Awareness Questionnaire, Body Image Ideals Questionnaire, Body Competence Scale, motivations for doing CrossFit). Weekly frequency of CrossFit sessions was not connected with positive affect (Kendall tau_b=-.02, p=.766), negative affect (-.01, p=.861), or well-being (.10, p=.068) in the correlation analysis. Similarly, overall CrossFit experience (duration x frequency) was not related to global self-esteem (Kendall tau_b=.01, p=.778), body awareness (-.04, p=.379), body image dissatisfaction (.04, p=.423), and body competence (-.07, p=.184). In the regression analysis, well-being was connected with male gender (β=-.205, p<.01), time elapsed from starting with CrossFit (β=-0.178, p<.05), dissatisfaction with body image (β=-.218, p<.01), and body awareness (β=.149, p<.05). Global self-esteem was related to age (β=.164, p<.05), body competence (β=.152, p<.05), and body image dissatisfaction (β=-.276, p<.001). CrossFit training was not connected with higher levels of psychological functioning (well-being, affect, body awareness, and self-esteem) and satisfaction with body image.

Following and Resisting Body Image Ideals in Advertising: The Moderating Role of Extrinsic Contingency Focus

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd J. Williams ◽  
Jeff Schimel ◽  
Joseph Hayes ◽  
Murat Usta
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Image Ideals ◽  
Moderating Role

Female and male body image ideals among Arab immigrants and Germans in Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Lucas B. Mazur ◽  
Muznah Alterkawi ◽  
Magnus J. P. Müller ◽  
Joshua Kontny ◽  
Melanie Papas
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Arab Immigrants ◽  
Male Body Image ◽  
Body Image Ideals

scholarly journals Fatness and Failing Citizenship

Somatechnics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Rinaldi ◽  
Carla Rice ◽  
Andrea LaMarre ◽  
Deborah McPhail ◽  
Elisabeth Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Size ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Citizenship ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Queer Space ◽  
Queer Communities ◽  
Body Image Ideals ◽  
Management Expectations ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics of belonging through analysing in-depth interviews conducted for a research project that investigated how members of queer communities come up against, are affected by and resist body image ideals and body management expectations. Interview excerpts are organised around sites of constraint, contestation and creativity: medical space, queer space and the body as space.

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