JBP Special Issue Call for Papers: Black Women’s Body Image: Implications for Identity Formation and Well-Being

Fitspiration has been positioned as an online interchange featuring images and text designed to inspire fitness and healthy eating. Given its ubiquity as an emerging social media trend, and its unintended impact on body image disturbance mediated by social comparison, Fitspiration has been understudied. This review draws on theoretical perspectives associated with traditional and new media impact on young women’s body image concerns, and overviews strategies to engage students in adopting a healthier body image. The manuscript also provides educational implications and directions for practice, particularly guided by media literacy models that may serve to intervene with body comparisons, inspire deeper learning and a renewed vision of fitness, health, and well-being.

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Values, Body Weight, and Well Being: The Influence of the Protestant Ethic and Consumerism on Physical Activity, Eating, and Body Image

International Quarterly of Community Health Education ◽

10.2190/9083-712k-4666-j021 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 239-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Fred Vanden Heede ◽

Suzanne Pelican ◽

Betty Holmes ◽

Sylvia A. Moore ◽

David Buchanan

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Body Image ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Well Being ◽

Protestant Ethic ◽

Health Improvement ◽

Focus Group Interviews ◽

Historical Trends ◽

Improvement Project ◽

Group Interviews

This article explores how people's values shape their experiences and emotions with respect to physical activity, eating, and body image. It describes the results of a grounded theory analysis of individual and focus group interviews conducted as part of a community-based health improvement project, Wellness IN the Rockies (WIN the Rockies). The analysis links core theoretical constructs, including habitus, sedimentation, and natural attitude, to larger socio-cultural and historical trends embodied in the Protestant ethic and the rise of consumerism, illuminating how these values shape people's everyday understanding of their experiences. Key analytic frameworks focus on the socialization processes involved in inculcating values, identity formation, and moralization as they relate to health attitudes and behaviors. Major implications of the results are discussed, especially the need to enhance self-understanding about social values in health education.

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Education for social change: Improving women's body image

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e506842013-032 ◽

2000 ◽

Author(s):

Marie-Claude Paquette ◽

Kimberley Ransome ◽

Kim Raine-Travers

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Social Change ◽

Women's Body Image

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Influences of Indian Media on Indian Women's Body Image

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e602542010-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Manisha K. Kapadia ◽

Sally D. Stabb

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Women's Body Image

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Ethnic Identity Formation in College Students: Implications for Well-Being

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e700902007-001 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Diane M. Fischer ◽

Judy A. McCown

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Ethnic Identity ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Well Being ◽

Ethnic Identity Formation

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Supplemental Material for The Impact of Cosmetic Surgery Advertising on Women’s Body Image and Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery

Psychology of Popular Media Culture ◽

10.1037/ppm0000099.supp ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Cosmetic Surgery ◽

Women's Body Image ◽

The Impact

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The Relationship between Body Image and Exercise Adherence in Fitness Centre Exercising Sample

Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences ◽

10.33607/bjshs.v1i80.338 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (80) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rasa Jankauskienė ◽

Brigita Miežienė

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Exercise Adherence ◽

Physical Activity Promotion ◽

Well Being ◽

Social Physique Anxiety ◽

Men And Women ◽

Activity Promotion ◽

And Gender ◽

Body Self ◽

The Relationship

Research background and hypothesis. The analysis of factors which might inﬂ uence exercise adherence is important issue for physical activity promotion. Studies show that exercisers’ body image is important factor associated with well being, exercise motivation and speciﬁ c exercise–related behaviour.Research aim was is to examine the relationship between exercise adherence, body image and social physique anxiety in a sample of ﬁ tness centre participants. Research methods. Members of ﬁ tness centres (n = 217, 66 of them were women) provided their answers on exercise experience, in three subscales (appearance evaluation, appearance orientation and overweight preoccupation) of The Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ-AS; Brown et al., 1990) and Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS; Hart et al., 1989). Mean age of the sample was 29.02 (9.85) years (range = 18–68 years).Research results. Women demonstrated higher appearance orientation, overweight preoccupation and social physique anxiety compared to men. However, we observed no signiﬁ cant differences in appearance evaluation, appearance orientation and overweight preoccupation in the groups of different exercise experience of men and women. When overweight respondents (≥ 25 kg / m²) were excluded from the analysis, there were no statistically signiﬁ cant differences observed in body image and social physique anxiety in exercise experience groups of men and women. Exercising longer than 6 years signiﬁ cantly predicted overweight preoccupation [95% CI: 1.25–16.94] controlled by age and gender. Discussion and conclusions. Exercising men demonstrated more positive body image and lower social physique anxiety compared to women, except for appearance evaluation. There were observed no body image and social physique relationships with exercise adherence observed in the sample of ﬁ tness centre participants, however, exercise experience longer than 6 years predicted overweight preoccupation.Keywords: body image concerns, exercise experience, self-presentation.

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