Embodying combat: How boxers make sense of their ‘conversations of gestures’

Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Beauchez
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Images ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Practical Sense

This essay offers an ethnography of the ‘conversations of gestures’ that occur between boxers during training fights or ‘sparring’. By showing how these situations are embodied, it elaborates a sociology of the senses and meaning as it relates to these ordeals. In addition to considering the boxers and their ‘culture in interaction’, the essay reexamines a number of the assumptions embraced by sociologists of ‘habitus’ and ‘practical sense’. While a boxer's knowledge lies first and foremost in his fists, the fight also triggers a vital consciousness of the situation – a body image – that, when articulated with habitualized motor schemas, makes reflection and strategy central to the action itself. To deny the possibility of such boxing reflexivity would mean describing the fighter as a ‘cultural dope’ whose capacity for reflection is supplanted by the acquisition of fighting reflexes: this is what is entailed by the concept of ‘boxing habitus’. Yet this emphasis on the body's automatic mechanisms reduces the sociology of practice to the socialization of body schemas, without being able to connect them to body images. The latter is what this essay seeks to reintroduce into analysis.

Obese Individuals' Perception of Body Image

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 617-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Bailey ◽  
Martin M. Shinedling ◽  
I. Reed Payne
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Overweight People ◽  
Figure Drawings

To test differences in size of body image of underweight, normal weight, and overweight people, 105 undergraduates were administered a Draw-A-Person test. The torso and head of the figure drawings were each assigned a number from 0 to 3 according to the degree their dimensions represented obese characteristics. Obese Ss drew significantly larger figures, indicating larger body images than normal or underweight Ss.

scholarly journals Body Image and Disturbed Eating Attitudes Among Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-430
Author(s):  
Wajeha Zainab ◽  
Shafaq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Ideal Body Weight ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Disturbed Eating ◽  
Ideal Body ◽  
Body Self ◽  
The Impact

Among all the psychiatric conditions, eating disorders has the highest mortality rates and most of the sufferers are adolescents. As the standards for beauty and attraction are changing and creating a bigger gap between actual and ideal body images resulting in dissatisfied, striving individuals to attain ideal body weight and shape. The current study is intended to explore the impact of closely related but discrete aspects of body image on disturbed eating attitudes among adolescents in Pakistan. Schools and universities were selected through convenient sampling, based on cross sectional research study involved 300 students of 15-20 years (M = 17.23, SD = 1.42) who completed the Eating Attitudes Test and Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaires. Analyses revealed that the adolescents with disturbed eating attitudes had scored significantly more on cognitive and affective components of body image that is overweight preoccupation and dissatisfaction with their body parts when compared to adolescents with normal eating patterns. Findings of this study are consistent with the existing literature in western culture that suggests that Preoccupation with weight and shape and body dissatisfaction is a risk factor for disturbed eating attitudes among adolescents.

scholarly journals Effects of Breast Cancer on Women's Psychological Health: A Review of Self-Compassion-Based Interventions in Body Image

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Breast Cancer Survivors ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Rehabilitation Intervention ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Day By Day

Research on how breast cancer and its treatment affect women's psychological health is increasing day by day. There is information that the psychological health of women is affected not only in the treatment, but also during the period from cancer diagnosis to the beginning of cancer treatment. In recent years, pre-rehabilitation intervention, which is an up-to-date approach that recommends intervention in this process, comes to the fore. The problems women experience with their body images have an important place in the effects of breast cancer and its treatment on women's psychological health. Body image is defined as a conceptualized state of the emotions, thoughts and behaviors that a person feels about their physical characteristics. In recent years, interventions aimed at reducing body image problems in women with breast cancer have been increasing. Self-compassion is defined as an individual's approach to their flaws with a sincere, caring and warm attitude. The emphasis on the role of self-compassion in reducing the problems that women with breast cancer experience with body images is increasing day by day. Based on this information, in this study, the literature on the problems faced by women with breast cancer with their body image and the role of self-compassion in reducing these problems is reviewed and discussed within the scope of pre-rehabilitation intervention. Keywords: Self-compassion, breast cancer survivors, interventions for self-compassion, body image

scholarly journals Level of Physical Activity on the Body Image of Young Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (03) ◽  
pp. 156-161
Author(s):  
Katielly Santana ◽  
Almir de França Ferraz ◽  
André Rodrigues Lourenço Dias ◽  
Rosilene Andrade Silva Rodrigues ◽  
Camila Pasa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Image Dissatisfaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Amount ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Vigorous Intensity ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Activity Questionnaire

AbstractPhysical exercise has the ability to alter the measurements of the body related to esthetic. The objective of the present study was to compare the body image and body esthetic between two groups of women with different levels of physical activity. We evaluated 79 women who were divided into 2 groups: 39 women with low or moderate levels of physical activity, and 40 women with high levels of physical activity according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Anthropometric and body composition measurements were taken using the InBody S10 multifrequency device (InBody Co., Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea). The scale of silhouettes, which is composed of 9 engravings of body images, was used to verify the body image, as well as the Portuguese version of the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) validated for university students. The group of evaluators was composed of twenty physical education professionals of both sexes, ten male and ten female. The group with low/moderate levels of physical activity, as expected, showed a lower amount (minutes per week) of physical activity of mild, moderate and vigorous intensity when compared with the group with high levels of physical activity (p < 0.05), and they also had a higher ratio of fat mass (FM) per height squared (p = 0.047). The BSQ questionnaire scores, the current and ideal silhouettes, as well as body image dissatisfaction, were not different between the groups (p > 0.05). The overall body esthetic score, attributed only by the male and only by the female evaluators, did not differ significantly (p > 0.05). We concluded that the level of physical activity did not influence the body image and body esthetic of the women.

Prerequisites for Perceptual Evaluation on Brain Damage

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jimenez ◽  
A. Chiarcossi ◽  
E. Keltz ◽  
Perry Tepperman
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Mental Status ◽  
Sensory Impairment ◽  
Cortical Function ◽  
Spatial Disorientation ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
The Senses

An analysis is made of the basic prerequisites before attempting any evaluation of perceptual deficits. Three areas are identified and discussed as they may affect the results of the tests: − 1) as related to the patient: mental status; communication; premorbid conditions affecting the senses and apraxias. 2) as related to the examiner: adequate knowledge. 3) as related to the tests: the meaning of total cortical function is not fully understood, therefore all tests are limited: the commonly used separation of different tests should be considered with caution and used primarily to facilitate the administration of the test; the concepts of body image, neglect, denial and spatial disorientation are intimately related between themselves and are also related to the sensory impairment (cortical and peripheral).

Body Image and Cosmetic Surgery: The Psychology of Physical Appearance

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Cash
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Negative Body Image ◽  
Sole Purpose ◽  
Image Improvement ◽  
Cognitive Social Learning

The sole purpose of cosmetic surgery is the improvement of patients' body images (their attitudes about their physical appearance). This article offers an overview of contemporary theory and research on body image. The nature and prevalence of negative body image experiences are delineated. A cognitive social learning model elucidates dysfunctional body image development, including its predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining causes. The author describes his psychotherapeutic program for body image improvement and its potential adjunctive utility in the treatment of patients who receive cosmetic surgery.

Lift force reduction due to body image of vortex for a hovering flight model

2012 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 648-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. X. Wang ◽  
Z. N. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Lift Force ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vortex Rings ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Hovering Flight ◽  
Equivalent Radius ◽  
Force Reduction ◽  
Relative Body Size

AbstractThe effect of the body on the lift force in hovering flight is studied here by including the effect of image vortex rings (IVRs) in the inviscid vortex ring model proposed by Rayner (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 91, 1979, pp. 697–730) and used by Wang & Wu (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 654, 2010, pp. 453–472) to study lift force due to wakes. The body is treated simply as an equivalent sphere following the data of Ellington (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, vol. 305, 1984a, pp. 17–40). It is shown that the body image reduces the lift by inducing a further downwash near the wing tip and an additional contraction to the real vortex rings (RVRs). The amount of force reduction due to body image is found to grow cubically with relative body size, defined by the equivalent radius relative to the wing span, and approximately linearly with the feathering parameter. For Apis and Bombus with large relative body size and large feathering parameter, the body images reduce lift by an amount near 8 % according to the present simplified analysis.

scholarly journals “Do I Look Fat in This?”: The Role of the Mother-Daughter Relationships in Determining Body Image

EDIS ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eboni Baugh
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship

FCS8838, a 3-page fact sheet by Eboni Baugh, explores the importance of the mother-daughter relationship to girls developing their body images. Learn how mothers can play a crucial role in ensuring that girls have a healthy self-image and do not engage in destructive dieting or eating patterns. Published by the UF Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, April 2007.

scholarly journals Persepsi citra tubuh dan kendala untuk menurunkan berat badan pada remaja SLTP di Kota Yogyakarta dan Kabupaten Bantul

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Noviani Tarigan ◽  
Hamam Hadi ◽  
Madarina Julia
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Obese Adolescent ◽  
Obese Adolescents ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity

Background: The prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents is increasing, both in the developed and developing countries. Obesity has been reported to be related to the impairment of body image, but this association has not been studied among Indonesian adolescents.Objective: To assess the perception of body image and the obstacles for reducing body weight in obese junior high school adolescents in the District of Yogyakarta and Bantul.Methods: This is a cross sectional study, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Body images were assessed using Body Image Assessment for Obesity (BIA-O) with 8 figures. In depth interview were used to assess the perceptions of body images and the obstacles in reducing body weight faced by the obese adolescents.Results: Obese adolescents had significantly larger dissatisfaction to their body images compared to their non-obese peers, i.e. mean (95%CI) scores of dissatisfaction of 1.89 (1.69 – 2.08) in obese adolescents compared to –0.27 (-0.49 to 0.05) in non-obese adolescents. Most of the obese adolescents had tried to reduce their weight, mostly in order to have a better looks, but failures and hardships in the efforts had made most of them stopped trying.Conclusion: Obese adolescent were not satisfied with their image. Most of them had tried to reduce body weight but failures had made them stop trying.

scholarly journals Representation of youth body images in Hilo Teen advertising (Norman Fairclough critical discourse analysis)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Hanna Sundari ◽  
Rina Husnaini Febriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Milk Product ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Teenage Girls

This research is conducted using model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that stated by Norman Fairclough. This discourse analysis is selected because it is considered to be able to answer the question of the purpose of this research that is formulated which focused on digging up the ideology value on teenager body image that is displayed on the discourse analysis in Hilo Teen advertisement. Fairclough sees a discourse as a social practice and authority which involves particular ideology value whether in explicitly or implicitly. The analysis of Fairclough is centered on text, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. In this research, discourse analysis text Hilo Teen advertisement is focused on text dimension that involves representation, relation, and identity that is aired on the advertisement and sociocultural context in community scope. The result of this research based on the analysis defines Hilo Teen advertisement describes the body image of teenage girls are thin, slim, tall, and energetic; on the other hand, the body image of teenage boys are thin and tall. This advertisement also displays the problematic and realistic of teenagers who accentuate physical aspect only. Furthermore, Hilo Teen advertisement not only promotes milk product for teenagers but also tries forming a perception and conception on the society (teenagers and parents) about an ideal body shape of teenagers.

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