This chapter surveys a widely scattered empirical literature on media and adolescents. It
focuses on youth from roughly 10 through 20 years old, and covers research on leisure time …

Objective: Body dissatisfaction is of high prevalence among women all over the Western
world. It is often suggested that sociocultural processes are the main cause of such …

Positive body image plays a vital role in fostering healthy psychological and physical
development in girls. Conversely, poor body image has a wide range of negative …

Cutting-edge research meets brain-friendly strategies for teaching adolescents! The revised
and expanded edition of this hands-on guide helps unlock adolescent thinking and behavior …

Studies of “media effects” on women's appearance satisfaction have focused largely on
images from fashion magazines and television commercials, and rarely on images from …

Using self-objectification theory we investigated variables that predict engagement in risky
appearance management behaviors among female college students. We found self …

Family members can exert important direct and indirect influence on the eating behaviours
of children; these include modelling, and transmission of preferences, beliefs, and attitudes …

This study examines the relationship between body image and obesity, among 4367
indigenous and Anglo-European adolescents in Australia in 2006. It shows that indigenous …

Reasoned action theory is adapted to study the influence of body satisfaction and subjective
norm (the role of others) on behavioral intention and behavior to change the body. Data are …

Background: In recent years, a large number of studies have demonstrated that many factors
may exert an influence on the self perceptions and attitudes of adolescents that lead to body …