Embarrassment is an understudied self-conscious emotion both experienced globally and in
the context of the body. Drawing from affective body image tenets, this investigation aimed to
better understand body-related embarrassment in a final sample of 187 adolescent and
young adult males and females. A thematic content analysis was used to analyze self-report
narratives from a relived emotion task and participants completed a self-report survey about
the social environmental features of the emotional experience. Seven first-order themes and …