The impact of completing body image assessments on adolescents' body image and engagement in body change strategies: Harmful or harmless?
Adolescents
Assessment
Body image
Harm
Research
Risk
Journal
Body image
ISSN: 1873-6807
Titre abrégé: Body Image
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101222431
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
06
05
2021
revised:
20
07
2021
accepted:
22
07
2021
pubmed:
10
8
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
9
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Parents and educators have raised concerns that participating in body image research may cause or increase poor body image and engagement in body change strategies. This quasi-experimental study compared body image and body change strategy outcomes among adolescents who had, and had not, previously been exposed to the same assessment questions 6-months prior (twice- vs once-completers). Comparison was also made between groups who completed an assessment containing only positively worded items or both positive and negative items (positive vs mixed valence). Boys and girls (N = 1,532, M
Identifiants
pubmed: 34371312
pii: S1740-1445(21)00099-1
doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.07.003
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
131-138Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest None.