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The Role of Social Appearance Comparison in Body Dissatisfaction of Adolescent Boys and Girls

The main aim of the present study is to investigate the indirect effect of the association between thin-ideal internalisation (1), muscular-ideal internalization (2) and body dissatisfaction (BD) through the general social appearance comparison separately among boys and girls. 154 adolescents (mean...

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Autores principales: Barbierik, Lucia, Bacikova-Sleskova, Maria, Petrovova, Veronika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PsychOpen 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10508200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37731755
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.6443
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description The main aim of the present study is to investigate the indirect effect of the association between thin-ideal internalisation (1), muscular-ideal internalization (2) and body dissatisfaction (BD) through the general social appearance comparison separately among boys and girls. 154 adolescents (mean age 18.2 years, SD = 0.73; 56.5% girls) provided information on the explored variables. Two hierarchical regression models were carried out for boys and girls separately. The general appearance comparison works as an important explanatory mechanism in the relationship between thin-ideal internalization and BD among girls as well as between muscular-ideal internalization and BD among both boys and girls. The more individuals internalize the societal ideals of appearance, the more they compare their physical appearance to others and thus the greater BD they perceive. The current results contribute to previous research findings by indicating the social appearance comparison as a risk factor which enhances BD among both boys and girls in late adolescence. The findings may facilitate identifying individuals who are vulnerable to body dissatisfaction earlier, before more serious eating problems occur.
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spelling pubmed-105082002023-09-20 The Role of Social Appearance Comparison in Body Dissatisfaction of Adolescent Boys and Girls Barbierik, Lucia Bacikova-Sleskova, Maria Petrovova, Veronika Eur J Psychol Research Reports The main aim of the present study is to investigate the indirect effect of the association between thin-ideal internalisation (1), muscular-ideal internalization (2) and body dissatisfaction (BD) through the general social appearance comparison separately among boys and girls. 154 adolescents (mean age 18.2 years, SD = 0.73; 56.5% girls) provided information on the explored variables. Two hierarchical regression models were carried out for boys and girls separately. The general appearance comparison works as an important explanatory mechanism in the relationship between thin-ideal internalization and BD among girls as well as between muscular-ideal internalization and BD among both boys and girls. The more individuals internalize the societal ideals of appearance, the more they compare their physical appearance to others and thus the greater BD they perceive. The current results contribute to previous research findings by indicating the social appearance comparison as a risk factor which enhances BD among both boys and girls in late adolescence. The findings may facilitate identifying individuals who are vulnerable to body dissatisfaction earlier, before more serious eating problems occur. PsychOpen 2023-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10508200/ /pubmed/37731755 http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.6443 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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