Body image is an integral aspect of the psychology of the self. Idealized body images are
ubiquitous in both traditional media forms (eg, magazines, television) and social media (eg …

Background Accumulating research has broadened our understanding of body image
across novel populations, and attention is turning towards exploring how autistic individuals …

Abstract The Functionality Appreciation Scale is a widely used instrument for the
measurement of an individual's appreciation of their body for what it can do and is capable …

Existing interventions that target the intersection of girls' body image and sports participation
are marginally effective, which is, in part, due to methodological limitations pertaining to …

Body functionality is an emerging positive body image construct which may help women
value what their body can do, rather than how it looks. In this online experimental study, we …

Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist
and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and …

Research consistently demonstrates that media depictions of 'the yogi'are narrowly
represented, erasing bodies of difference, and perpetuating an idealised form of yoga. We …

This article thinks with disability theory and artistic praxis to explore how disabled artists
repurpose and invent technologies in artistic processes designed to enact care and access …

Previous work has supported direct, positive associations between body appreciation and
positive mental health, but has largely neglected to examine possible indirect mechanistic …

Abstract The 7-item Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS; Alleva et al., 2017) measures an
individual's appreciation of their body for what it can do and is capable of doing (ie …