With the quickly rising popularity of social media within the past decade, researchers have
started to investigate the relationship between social media use and various psychological …

Health and wellness have become a cultural focus in Western countries, with weight-
management highlighted as imperative for wellbeing. This focus is clearly represented on …

Abstract The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) and
its earlier versions are measures designed to assess societal and interpersonal aspects of …

Transdiagnostic models of psychopathology are increasingly prominent because they focus
on fundamental processes underlying multiple disorders, help to explain comorbidity among …

Research suggests that exposure to mass media depicting the thin-ideal body may be linked
to body image disturbance in women. This meta-analysis examined experimental and …

Research has documented an increased emphasis on fitness in media targeting women.
However, it is unclear whether this emphasis has resulted in increased muscularity in the …

This meta-analytic review of prospective and experimental studies reveals that several
accepted risk factors for eating pathology have not received empirical support (eg, sexual …

The relationship between social comparison and body dissatisfaction was examined using
meta-analysis. Several demographic and methodological variables were examined as …

Through their features—such as profile photographs or the personal vita—online profiles on
social-networking sites offer a perfect basis for social comparison processes. By looking at …

The present study experimentally examined the impact of different forms of inspirational
fitness images (“fitspiration”) on women's body image. Australian female participants (n …