We review the research conducted in the past 15 years concerned with the role of friends
and peers in adolescent body dissatisfaction. A number of friend and peer group …

Food practices are embedded in everyday life and social relationships. In youth nutrition
promotion little attention is awarded to this centrality of food practices, yet it may play a …

Introduction: Adolescents' engagement with online social networking platforms is advancing
at an exponential rate and research is needed to investigate any impact on young users' …

Body image is a significant issue for the majority of adolescents. Anxieties relating to body
image can be crippling across both genders, their debilitating effects sometimes leading to …

What can critical social psychology teach us about our sense of identity? How have
psychosocial and feminist approaches challenged our understanding of subjectivity? Where …

There exists the idea that western societies are now postfeminist, implying that remaining
differences between men and women should be understood as a result of the free exercise …

Social comparison (ie, body, eating, exercise) and body surveillance were tested as
mediators of the thin-ideal internalization-body dissatisfaction relationship in the context of …

The aim of this study was to investigate how peers influence adolescent body image, and
whether this influence was positive and/or negative from young peoples' perspectives. One …

This study investigated the potential mediating roles of body comparisons with peers and
models in the relationship between the internalization of thinness norms and body image …

Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image,
spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. This …