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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101862

Jinbo He , Lanting Cheng , Shuqi Cui , Shijia Wu , Zexuan Jiang , Jason M. Nagata

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A body image training program for health professionals: A single group pre-post evaluation

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101863

Maryam Marashi , Erin K. O’Loughlin , David M. Brown , Catherine M. Sabiston

{"title":"A body image training program for health professionals: A single group pre-post evaluation","authors":"Maryam Marashi , Erin K. O’Loughlin , David M. Brown , Catherine M. Sabiston","doi":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101863","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101863","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Health professionals (HPs) often overlook the complexity of body image. The <em>Body Image Fundamentals</em> program was designed to enhance HPs' knowledge and skills in managing body image concerns. The online program was evaluated over 16 weeks using a single-group pre-post design based on Kirkpatrick's Four-Level Training Model. Participants (dietitians, health coaches, fitness trainers, and nutritionists) completed pre-post surveys featuring closed and open-ended questions. Survey items assessed program acceptability (Level 1: Reactions) measuring satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and engagement, as well as feasibility (e.g., completion rates). Changes in knowledge and perceived skill acquisition (Level 2: Learning) and the application of knowledge (Level 3: Behavior) were assessed as preliminary indicators of the program’s effectiveness. Pre-post changes in participants' own body image and related attitudes were examined as secondary outcomes. Of the 127 participants who completed the initial survey, 52 (41 %) finished the post-program survey and completed 72.1 % of the eight modules. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction, usefulness, and understandability (ratings >92/100 %). Significant changes included increased body image knowledge (<em>d</em> =.88) and body appreciation (<em>d</em> =.42), reduced idealization of thin (<em>d</em> =.66) and athletic bodies (<em>d</em> =.73), and decreased anti-fat attitudes (<em>d</em> =.43). Open-ended responses indicated intended and on-going individualized and compassionate practices with clients/patients, while also highlighting the need for clearer guidelines on applying learned skills in practice. Results suggest the program has the potential to improve HPs' ability to address body image concerns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48312,"journal":{"name":"Body Image","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101863"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143549615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Italian adolescents' body image and sociocultural influences: An investigation using the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4-Revised

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101861

Sara Iannattone , Silvia Cerea , Marco Lauriola , Camilla Matera , Amanda Nerini , Gioia Bottesi

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Corrigendum to ““OMG you look amazing”: A systematic examination of the text-based interactions surrounding UK adolescent girls’ self-images on Instagram” [Body Image 52 (2024) 101839] “天哪，你看起来太棒了”的勘误：对英国青春期女孩在Instagram上的自我形象进行的基于文本的互动的系统研究[Body Image 52(2024) 101839]。

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101848

Danielle L. Paddock , Jennifer Cassarly , Beth T. Bell

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Corrigendum to “Does TikTok contribute to eating disorders? A comparison of the TikTok algorithms belonging to individuals with eating disorders versus healthy controls” [Body Image 51 (2024) 101807] “TikTok会导致饮食失调吗？”饮食失调患者与健康对照组的TikTok算法的比较”[Body Image 51(2024) 101807]。

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101834

Scott Griffiths , Grace Whitehead , Felicity Angelopoulos , Ben Stone , Wesley Grey , Simon Dennis , Emily A. Harris

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Words are heavy: Weight-related terminology preferences are associated with larger-bodied people’s health behaviors and beliefs

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101860

Molly Robbins , Katerina Rinaldi , Paula M. Brochu , Janell L. Mensinger

{"title":"Words are heavy: Weight-related terminology preferences are associated with larger-bodied people’s health behaviors and beliefs","authors":"Molly Robbins , Katerina Rinaldi , Paula M. Brochu , Janell L. Mensinger","doi":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Clinicians and researchers may struggle with appropriate terminology when discussing body size. Pathologizing larger bodies has led to use of medicalized terms. Previous studies have focused on terminology preferences among participants not in larger bodies, leaving out those most affected by the terminology. This study examined whether body appreciation, eating disorder symptoms, recovery status, and beliefs about health and weight influence larger-bodied participants’ terminology preferences. We recruited two groups: Sample 1 (<em>N</em> = 882) via social media and Sample 2 (<em>N</em> = 383) from an online crowdsourcing platform. Sample 1 preferred “in a larger body” and “fat,” while Sample 2 favored “overweight” and “curvy.” Both groups least preferred person-first language (e.g., “person with overweight/obesity”). In Sample 1, participants recovered from eating disorders were more likely to choose “fat” than those who were currently struggling. Those who preferred “fat” had the highest body appreciation, highest critical health awareness, lowest eating disorder symptoms, lowest weight bias internalization, and lowest weight controllability beliefs. In Sample 2, preferring medicalized terms was associated with lower critical health awareness and higher weight controllability beliefs. These findings suggest that fat-related and weight-neutral terms may be associated with more positive outcomes, challenging advocacy for person-first medicalized language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48312,"journal":{"name":"Body Image","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101860"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143464410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beyond ‘bouncing back’: Bodily change and postpartum embodiment

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101859

Jaime R. DeLuca, Jacob J. Bustad

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Representation matters: Exposure to advertisements featuring models with different skin shades affects body image, well-being and advertising effectiveness among South Asian Women in the UK

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101858

Nadia Craddock , Monica Majumdar , Mal Sivapunniyan, Jade Parnell , Phillippa C. Diedrichs , Paul White , Fiona K. Barlow

{"title":"Representation matters: Exposure to advertisements featuring models with different skin shades affects body image, well-being and advertising effectiveness among South Asian Women in the UK","authors":"Nadia Craddock , Monica Majumdar , Mal Sivapunniyan, Jade Parnell , Phillippa C. Diedrichs , Paul White , Fiona K. Barlow","doi":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101858","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101858","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Racialised appearance ideals displayed in media and advertising imagery privilege white or light skin. Yet, little research has tested how white or light skin ideals in advertising influence body image. In this online experimental study, South Asian women in the UK (<em>N</em> = 194, <em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 28.6 years) recruited via Prolific, were randomly assigned to view advertisements that featured either South Asian women with dark skin, South Asian women with light skin, White women, or products only. Dependent variables included appearance and skin shade satisfaction, mood (feeling confident, inspired, anxious, depressed), and advertising effectiveness. Repeated measure ANOVAs and post-hoc analyses showed that viewing White models reduced participants’ skin shade satisfaction and lowered their confidence. Exposure to advertisements with South Asian models with dark skin increased the extent to which women felt inspired, while exposure to advertisements with South Asian models with light skin increased appearance satisfaction. Exposure to either of the South Asian models reduced women’s anxiety. Our results present compelling evidence that representation matters – in terms of body image and wellbeing as well as advertising effectiveness. As little experimental work has been conducted on skin shade representation in advertising on body image outcomes, we outline several important future directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48312,"journal":{"name":"Body Image","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101858"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Longitudinal associations between appearance evaluation during video chat and body image concerns: A test of the “Perfect Storm” framework

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101856

Kaitlyn Burnell , Jennifer M. Traver , Anne J. Maheux

{"title":"Longitudinal associations between appearance evaluation during video chat and body image concerns: A test of the “Perfect Storm” framework","authors":"Kaitlyn Burnell , Jennifer M. Traver , Anne J. Maheux","doi":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101856","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Body image development is a critical task of adolescence, necessitating the study of experiences that shape how adolescents perceive their appearance. Video chatting is one such experience, as default self-view settings render an environment in which one’s physical appearance is highly salient. Although numerous studies have examined how digital technology use relates to body image, few have examined video chatting, especially longitudinally. Research is also needed examining how self-oriented digital experiences may indirectly relate to mental health via body image concerns. This three-wave longitudinal study examined bidirectional associations between self-reported appearance evaluation during video chat, body image concerns (appearance esteem and self-objectification), and depressive symptoms among a socio- and ethnically-diverse sample of early-to-middle adolescents (<em>N</em> = 1157, <em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 13.14, 53 % girls, 47% boys). Bidirectional associations emerged for both boys and girls, in which appearance evaluation during video chat was linked with lower appearance esteem and greater self-objectification. Both appearance esteem and self-objectification mediated the longitudinal association between appearance evaluation during video chat and depressive symptoms. Findings suggest that appearance evaluation during video chat may have important long-term associations with body image and mental health, which future research should explore further, particularly with objective assessments of self-focused attention during video chat.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48312,"journal":{"name":"Body Image","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101856"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Validation of the muscularity bias internalization scale in Chinese transgender and gender-diverse adults

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Body Image Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101857

Siyu Wang , Wesley R. Barnhart , Yijing Li , Christina M. Gaggiano , Zexuan Jiang , Shijia Wu , Jason M. Nagata , Feng Ji , Jinbo He

{"title":"Validation of the muscularity bias internalization scale in Chinese transgender and gender-diverse adults","authors":"Siyu Wang , Wesley R. Barnhart , Yijing Li , Christina M. Gaggiano , Zexuan Jiang , Shijia Wu , Jason M. Nagata , Feng Ji , Jinbo He","doi":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101857","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Muscularity bias internalization (MBI) refers to one’s beliefs in negative muscularity-based stereotypes and negative self-evaluations due to muscularity. Empirical research shows that MBI significantly correlates with muscularity-oriented eating and body image disturbances. The Muscularity Bias Internalization Scale (MBIS) measures MBI and has been validated in general adult populations. Given that evidence supports a higher risk of eating and body image disturbances in Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) people compared to their cisgender counterparts, validating the MBIS in TGD people is essential to further clarifying disparities in eating and body image disturbances in this population. With a sample of 410 Chinese TGD adults, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a two-factor structure. Comparisons of the second-order and bifactor models favored the second-order model. The MBIS showed good internal consistency and sound construct validity. Strong measurement invariance was confirmed across transgender men, transgender women, and gender-diverse groups, suggesting that these groups interpreted the MBIS similarly and that conclusions of differences in MBI across TGD adults can be considered true group differences. Specifically, transgender men reported the highest MBIS scores, followed by gender-diverse individuals, and then transgender women. These findings suggested that the MBIS appears to be a psychometrically sound instrument of MBI in Chinese TGD adults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48312,"journal":{"name":"Body Image","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101857"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143402671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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