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Overview of the field of positive body image / Tracy L. Tylka -- Positive body image by gender and across the lifespan / Lina A. Ricciardelli, Marie L. Caltabiano and Laura D. Antuono -- Considering positive body image through the lens of culture and minority social identities / Viren Swami -- Moving beyond body dissatisfaction and risky sexual behavior : a critical review of positive body image and sexual health scholarship / Virginia Ramseyer Winter -- Appearance related practices : can they be part of a positive body image? / Kristina H. Gattario and Carolina Lunde -- Mindful self-care and positive body image : mindfulness, yoga, and actionable tools for positive embodiment / Catherine Cook-Cottone -- The health at every size paradigm : promoting body positivity for all bodies / Patti Lou Watkins, Dawn Clifford and Brian Souza -- Better than before : individual strategies for body image improvement / Jamie Dunaev and Charlotte H. Markey -- Programmatic approaches to cultivating positive body image in youth / Elizabeth A. Daniels and Tomi-Ann Roberts -- Clinical applications of positive body image / Nichole L. Wood-Barcalow and Casey L. Augustus-Horvath -- Index

"Das Hauptziel dieser Studie galt der Identifizierung essentieller Faktoren der Körperbildentwicklung in einer nicht-klinischen Stichprobe von Jungen unter Berücksichtigung möglicher Einflüsse durch Peers, Familie und Medien. Es wurden semi-strukturierte Leitfadeninterviews mit 14 früh-adoleszenten Jungen (Altersrange von 10-12 Jahren) geführt, die zufällig aus den Teilnehmern einer größeren quantitativen Fragebogenstudie (N=167) an Grundschulen in Berlin ausgewählt wurden. Mittels thematischer Analyse konnten zwei Hauptthemen identifiziert werden: (1) sozialer Vergleich (beinhaltet die beiden Subthemen Selbst-Verbesserung und Selbst-Erhöhung) und (2) Internalisierung (beinhaltet die beiden Subthemen behaviorale und kognitive Dimensionen). An Hand der Ergebnisse wurde schließlich ein finales Modell erstellt, das die Konzeptualisierung des Körperbildes von Jungen in der frühen Adoleszenz abzubilden sucht." (Autorenreferat)

This book is a collection of stories of young girls who get mixed messages from magazines, movies, and television shows, a media that focuses on external features more than internal qualities.

Culture affects individuals' perceptions and experiences of their bodies. In order to provide the most effective solutions to body image-related issues, it is necessary to understand cultures and their influences on body image in various populations. This paper focuses on the effects of culture on body image. Therefore, a systematic literature search following PRISMA guidelines was performed in the PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases, yielding 2064 articles published between 1990 and 2023. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 54 articles were selected. Our findings showed a strong influence of culture on body image, highlighting the impact of societal expectations on individuals' mental well-being. Western cultures, with their preference for thinness, differ from non-Western ideals. The findings also showed the impact of regional variations within the same culture and society on body image. Furthermore, the study found that the young demographic, especially females, is the most vulnerable to body image issues; however, emerging research within our review also indicates a growing concern among males. This study underscores the necessity of culturally considering interventions to address body image issues, which are integral to improving mental health concerns like body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, depression, low self-esteem, and anxiety.

In recent years, academic and public attention has increasingly focused on the issue of men's preoccupation with body image and the increasing incidence of eating disorders among men. Although most of this focus has been on young and adult males, media discourse has tended to extend explanations for men's aspirations for social body ideals to explanations for eating disorders in young boys. In this article, we take a critical look at the way the boys/body image/eating disorder nexus has been represented in some of the mainstream media. In particular, we propose that the boys/body image/eating disorder nexus has been constituted as a truth that tends to underplay the complexity of the relationship between eating disorders and boys' dissatisfaction with their bodies, as recognized by researchers and health practitioners, and as evident from our own study of preteen boys diagnosed with an eating disorder. In this article, we use interviews with the six boys and their mothers collected for our study to construct short family biographies. These biographies are used to illustrate the complexity of the boys' experience of an eating disorder and to trouble the certainty with which the media discourse explaining boys' eating disorders is constituted.