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01-11-2007 | Original Paper

The Effects of Gender and Family, Friend, and Media Influences on Eating Behaviors and Body Image During Adolescence

Auteurs: Rheanna N. Ata, Alison Bryant Ludden, Megan M. Lally

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 8/2007

Abstract

The current study expands upon body image research to examine how gender, self-esteem, social support, teasing, and family, friend, and media pressures relate to body image and eating-related attitudes and behaviors among male and female adolescents (N = 177). Results indicated that adolescents were dissatisfied with their current bodies: males were concerned with increasing their upper body, whereas females wanted to decrease the overall size of their body. Low self-esteem and social support, weight-related teasing, and greater pressures to lose weight were associated with adolescents’ negative body esteem, body image, and eating attitudes. Females displayed more high risk eating behaviors—which were associated with more psychosocial risk factors—than males, whose high risk attitudes and behaviors were only associated with low parental support and greater pressure to be muscular. Reducing adolescents’ perceptions of appearance-related pressure from family and friends may be key for enhancing body image and decreasing links between low self-esteem and negative eating behaviors and weight-related perceptions.

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Titel: The Effects of Gender and Family, Friend, and Media Influences on Eating Behaviors and Body Image During Adolescence
Auteurs: Rheanna N. Ata
Alison Bryant Ludden
Megan M. Lally
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2007
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 8/2007
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-006-9159-x

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