The impact of completing body image assessments on adolescents' body image and engagement in body change strategies: Harmful or harmless?


Journal

Body image
ISSN: 1873-6807
Titre abrégé: Body Image
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101222431

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
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

131-138

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest None.

Auteurs

Hannah K Jarman (HK)

School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Electronic address: h.jarman@latrobe.edu.au.

Amy Slater (A)

Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Siân A McLean (SA)

School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Mathew D Marques (MD)

School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Susan J Paxton (SJ)

School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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