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 …

Many trials have provided support for dissonance-based eating disorder prevention
programs. This meta-analytic review characterized the average intervention effects and …

While some media perpetuate weight stigma and an ideal of thinness, certain advertising
campaigns, such as Aerie Real and Dove Real Beauty, have attempted to promote body …

Findings regarding ethnic differences in eating disorder diagnoses and risk factors have
been mixed. This study evaluated whether there are ethnic differences in eating disorder …

Various factors have been implicated in the development of body image dissatisfaction.
Especially important are three constructs: awareness of a thin ideal, internalization of a thin …

The degree to which media contributes to body dissatisfaction, life satisfaction and eating
disorder symptoms in teenage girls continues to be debated. The current study examines …

Disordered eating is prevalent among college student populations, and Orthorexia nervosa
(ON) is being explored as a new type of eating disorder. There is currently no standardized …

Although prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing, prevailing sociocultural
influences lead females to desire a thin body and males a muscular body, often resulting in …

This article offers a new model for bulimia nervosa (BN) that explains both the initial
impulsive nature of binge eating and purging, as well as the compulsive quality of the fully …

We examined how demographic factors (gender, sexual orientation, racial group, age, body
mass) were linked to measures of sociocultural appearance concerns derived from …