{"title":"Cognitive Dissonance–Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment","authors":"E. Halliwell, P. Diedrichs","doi":"10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive dissonance–based interventions (CDIs) emerge in meta-analyses as the most effective selective eating disorder prevention and body acceptance programs. This chapter examines whether CDIs can also be used to promote aspects of positive body image and embodiment. Theoretical links between CDI content and positive body image are discussed. Also, the small body of empirical research that has evaluated the impact of CDI on aspects of positive body image is reviewed. The chapter argues that CDI could offer a useful tool to promote positive body image. Some revisions may be beneficial. However, it is critical that changes are evaluated in randomized controlled trials to ensure that the effectiveness of CDIs is not compromised by these adaptations.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132383061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Women’s Positive Embodiment in the Face of Race × Gender Oppression","authors":"Nicole T. Buchanan, Isis H. Settles, K. C. Woods","doi":"10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"For many Black women, their relationship with their physique is complicated and nuanced by narratives of race, gender, and their intersection. Given this reality, positive embodiment is a hard-won battle for those Black women who achieve it, and their efforts are repeatedly challenged by mainstream cultural narratives that view their bodies as deviant and lacking value. The chapter examines Black women’s experience of embodiment through the lens of intersectionality theory. Given the nature of experiences such as racialized sexual harassment, examining intersecting identities such as Black women’s identities as simultaneously Black and female and their positive perception of this intersecting identity may specifically buffer against negative embodiment.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126703814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultivating Positive Embodiment Through Peer Connections","authors":"N. Mafrici","doi":"10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Peers represent important transmitters of weight- and body-related norms and ideals. Although much research exists on peer processes that disrupt girls’ and women’s connection to their bodies, this chapter examines the literature specifically pertaining to protective peer influences that support girls and women in distancing from appearance norms and facilitate enhanced connection with their bodies. In this regard, the chapter reviews three domains of protective influences that exist within the peer environment and contribute to positive body image and embodiment. First are peer norms related to (a) body acceptance, (b) distancing from appearance-based comments and comparisons, and (c) alternative norms fostering resiliency from peer appearance-based pressure. Second are interventions designed to support peer groups in resisting and protecting against teasing and harassment. The final domain is initiatives that facilitate activism and empowerment as positive determinants to social power within peer groups. The chapter concludes with a discussion of implications for clinical and prevention initiatives.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132371598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Experience of Embodiment Construct","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Embodiment captures a breadth of phenomena and reflects, concurrently, the lived-in experiences of inhabiting the body and the meaningful dialogical relationships between the body and the social environment. This chapter explicates the Experience of Embodiment construct, which emerged in a series of three qualitative studies with girls, younger women, and older women. This construct ranges from negative to positive embodiment and includes five dimensions: body connection and comfort, agency and functionality, experience and expression of bodily desires, attuned self-care, and subjective immersion (resisting objectification). This chapter also presents a measure of this construct, the Experience of Embodiment Scale, which is a fully structured scale that has accrued evidence of reliability and validity. This scale may contribute uniquely to the understanding of embodied lives, to etiological theories of embodied well-being and distress, and to intervention studies.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127571800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Focusing on the Positive","authors":"T. Tylka","doi":"10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This volume provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive, research-based resource that addresses the breadth of innovative theoretical concepts and related practice in positive ways of living in the body, while it also sets agendas for further expansion. This introduction first defines the core domains that represent positive ways of living in the body: positive body image and positive embodiment. Next, it provides evidence that studying these domains offers a unique perspective that extends beyond what is known about negative body image. It then explicates the points of convergence and divergence between positive body image and embodiment. It ends with an overview of the three sections of the volume: the varied constructs that represent positive ways of living in the body (Section I), environmental factors that nurture these constructs as protective factors for well-being (Section II), and interventions to cultivate positive body image and positive embodiment (Section III).","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133756659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Objectification","authors":"T. Tylka, Rachel M. Calogero","doi":"10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Objectification, or the fragmentation of others or oneself into body parts or sexual functions for scrutiny or gratification, is a destructive force that usurps positive embodiment. Yet, many people defend objectification. This chapter presents a two-prong approach to promote a resistant stance toward objectification, with examples. First, at a cultural level, objectification needs to be delegitimized by defusing or redirecting the threat (threat is sexual objectification), framing sexual objectification as already happening and offering ways to challenge it (e.g., #MeToo), helping people and businesses perceive that their outcomes are not dependent on objectification being sustained, and encouraging people to feel that they do not need to rely on objectification to feel personal control. Second, at an individual level, self-objectification (gazing at the self as an objectifier would) needs to be prevented by helping girls and women develop a schema to contextualize (rather than internalize) objectification and cultivate an embodied identity.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114837155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment","authors":"Jennifer B. Webb","doi":"10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary scholarship seeks to give increased attention to identifying and evaluating treatment modalities that may be useful in enhancing more positive forms of embodiment. In this context, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising approach to shift disrupted embodiment into a more embodied connection and engaged living via strengthening a range of interrelated embodied flexibility processes. This chapter is designed to address the following aims: (a) to propose a heuristic model integrating the conceptual foundations of ACT and embodiment; (b) to provide a clinical case illustrating the potential benefits of applying ACT strategies in the context of embodiment; (c) to offer a brief overview of select empirical studies applying ACT in the domains of body image, weight-related acceptance and stigmatization, eating, and physical activity; and (d) to briefly consider the strengths and limitations of this emerging evidence base to serve as a springboard for future research to pursue.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129910911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultivating Positive Embodiment Through The Family Environments","authors":"T. Tylka","doi":"10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explicates how families can cultivate girls’ positive embodiment. First, families can cultivate girls’ body connection and comfort by creating an environment that accepts children’s bodies (type, size, and weight); practicing mind–body connection activities such as yoga; and fostering positive body expression (e.g., positive body talk, supporting style preferences). Second, families can promote girls’ acting in and on the world with agency by preserving, cultivating, and restoring their voice and by promoting their body functionality. Third, families can encourage girls’ experience and expression of desire by enhancing the pleasures of eating (e.g., intuitive eating) and nurturing attuned sexuality (e.g., body respect, asserting sexual agency). Fourth, families can teach and reinforce actionable practices that promote attuned self-care. Last, families can build inner characteristics in girls (e.g., personality, intellect) while also helping girls protest, resist, and defy normative pressures to self-objectify via engaging in media literacy and social activism.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128489881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ann Frisén, Kristina Holmqvist Gattario, Sofia Berne
{"title":"Acceptance, Activism, and Freedom from Bullying","authors":"Ann Frisén, Kristina Holmqvist Gattario, Sofia Berne","doi":"10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0024","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet and especially social networking sites provide potent contexts for the formation of individuals’ views of their bodies and appearance. So far, however, research has almost exclusively focused on the negative aspects of these experiences. This chapter proposes that the online context can also be an influential context for positive body-related experiences. In order to make the online context a more positive arena, appearance-related cyberbullying needs to be stopped. Therefore, this chapter starts with a review of appearance-related cyberbullying and elaborates on what can be done about this growing problem. The second part concerns the positive aspects of body image–defining experiences online, such as body acceptance and body activism movements, which may promote positive body image and embodiment. How the online context may constitute an arena for exploration of alternative ideals, resistant communications, and body activism is discussed.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131630056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationships that Cultivate Positive Body Image Through Body Acceptance","authors":"M. Tiggemann","doi":"10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190841874.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter sets out to review the research and theory on body acceptance by significant others as an interpersonal factor promoting positive body image. Overall, the review finds that supportive and accepting relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners are critical to women’s positive body image throughout the life span and across many different contexts. This has significant implications not only for interventions aimed at promoting positive body image but also for those aimed at preventing or treating negative body image. Nevertheless, more sophisticated longitudinal and experimental research strategies are required to detail the processes underlying the link from the perception of body acceptance by others to one’s own positive body image.","PeriodicalId":345461,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114544200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}