Women's Perceived Body Image: Relations with Personal Happiness

Academia Letters, 2022

The body ideal presented most often is the one that the Anglo-American culture promotes and endorses. Anglo-American women endorse a thin body ideal and believe that men and other women find a thin body most attractive . In turn, these women feel pressured to match the thin body ideal they believe their peers hold . The body ideal endorsed by Mexican-American women remains unclear. The dominant Anglo-American culture is often in direct contrast with their Mexican heritage . Hispanic culture traditionally publicizes, promotes, and idealizes a curvy and full body type (

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014

Electronic physician, 2016

Body Image, 2010

Body Image, 2006

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2007

American Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences, 2017

Body image is a complex entity, formed from both an Individual's mental representation of the integrity and competence of their own physical self, as well as their awareness of how others perceive them-the social interpretation of their physical self. This paper examined the concepts of body image and its relationship with Body image-dissatisfaction, physical self-concept and self-esteem. For Adolescents and Young Adults body image and its relation with the concept of physical self-image are very important because body image determines their relationship with their friends, their social activities, and their self-esteem. They are very hot and sensitive for everything. Also, they are productive groups than other groups. It has negative impact on their life. So, this concept analysis is very important to avoid the negative impact of it.

Developmental Psychology, 2008

This study investigated the prospective predictors of body image in 9-to 12-year-old girls. Participants were 150 girls in Grades 4 -6 with a mean age of 10.3 years. Girls completed questionnaire measures of media and peer influences (television/magazine exposure, peer appearance conversations), individual psychological variables (appearance schemas, internalization of appearance ideals, autonomy), and body image (figure discrepancy and body esteem) at Time 1 and 1 year later at Time 2. Linear panel analyses showed that after controlling for Time 1 levels of body image, none of the Time 1 sociocultural variables predicted body image variables at Time 2. Body mass index (BMI; a biological variable) and psychological variables, however, did offer significant prospective prediction. Specifically, higher BMI, higher appearance schemas, higher internalization of appearance ideals, and lower autonomy predicted worsening body image 1 year later. Thus, higher weight and certain psychological characteristics were temporally antecedent to body image concerns. It was concluded that both biological and individual psychological variables play a role in the development of body image in children. Individual psychological variables, in particular, may provide useful targets in prevention and intervention programs addressing body image in 9-to 12-year-old girls.

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical …

Advances in Health Sciences Research, 2021