Fat Talk

2011 ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Ann-Charlotte Palmgren
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Online Community ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fat Talk

The purpose of this chapter is to study how young women in a Swedish context construct their body by writing about eating disorders in blogs. Connected to the body and eating disorders a construction of girlhood can be seen. The blogs studied are all part of the online community ungdomar.se. The chapter begins with a background to eating disorders, blogs and girlhood and youth in a cultural context. The main focus is on examples from thirteen blogs. The content and typographical emphasis in the blogs are analysed and discussed. The study shows that the process of becoming or constructing a certain body and blogging is both social and collective because of the interaction between the blogger, the community and blog commentators. The body is not only constructed by teenaged girls by striving to a certain type of a female body, but also by mastering the talk about one’s own body, dissatisfaction with it and by typographical emphasises in the blogs.

scholarly journals Slimming the body: slimming ads, body dissatisfaction and eating disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Santhidran Sinnappan ◽  
Yen Jin Yee ◽  
Nair GV ◽  
Sharon Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
The Body ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Effects Of Media

This study aimed to examine the perceived effects of media exposure of body slimming advertisements on body dissatisfaction and the tendency for eating disorders in a sample of adult women in Malaysia. This study examined two aspects: (a) the level of media exposure to slimming advertisements (media exposure), and (b) the tendency of respondents to make body comparisons with models in slimming advertisements (media body comparisons). Participants were 419 young women (18 – 39 years old) living in Kuala Lumpur. Correlation coefficients showed that media exposure and media body comparisons were positively associated with body dissatisfaction and eating disorders tendency. The findings suggest that mass media play a role by providing slim images that young women in Kuala Lumpur tend to emulate and adopt western cultural ideals of body image and the desire for a thinner body type.

scholarly journals ‘Weighty woes’: Impact of fat talk and social influences on body dissatisfaction among Indian women during the pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 002076402199281
Author(s):  
Kanika K Ahuja ◽  
Ananya Khandelwal ◽  
Debanjan Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fat Talk ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Societal Influences

Background: Psychosocial offshoots of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have extended to body dissatisfaction, especially among women. Factors such as increased social media exposure, weight gain memes, and peer conversations about appearance during lockdown might be the potential contributing factors, which need further exploration. The study examined the contribution of ‘fat talk’ and societal influences in determining body dissatisfaction among Indian women. The likely content of the ‘fat talk’ during the lockdown was also analyzed. Methods: The study followed a cross-sectional online based design. Participants comprised of 265 women, aged 15 to 50 years. The Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-8c), Sociocultural Attitudes toward Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3), and Negative Body Talk Scale were used to measure body satisfaction, societal influences, and fat talk respectively. Further, participants were asked to respond to a friend’s comment about her supposed weight gain in the pandemic (fat talk). Results: Fat talk, social influence, weight, and age were significantly correlated with body dissatisfaction. Multiple Regression models indicated that fat talk, social influence, weight, and age accounted for 53.33% of the variance in body satisfaction. Thematic analysis of responses to fat-talk conversations revealed two dominant themes: focus on exercise and diet, as well as acknowledging weight gain and normalizing it in the context of the pandemic. Conclusion: Fat talk amongst peers, societal influence and body-image stereotypes were the most potent contributors in determining body dissatisfaction among Indian women during the pandemic, which can contribute to significant dysfunction. These factors need addressal in the socio-cultural context through health campaigns, interpersonal strategies, and more positive and constructive forms of weight and body image-related communication.

The Body Project

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Stice ◽  
Paul Rohde ◽  
Heather Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Disorder Prevention

The Body Project is an empirically based eating disorder prevention program that offers young women an opportunity to critically consider the costs of pursuing the ultra-thin ideal promoted in the mass media, and it improves body acceptance and reduces risk for developing eating disorders. Young women with elevated body dissatisfaction are recruited for group sessions in which they participate in a series of verbal, written, and behavioral exercises in which they consider the negative effects of pursuing the thin-ideal. This online resource provides information on the significance of body image and eating disorders, the intervention theory, the evidence base which supports the theory, recruitment and training procedures, solutions to common challenges, and a new program aimed at reducing obesity onset, as well as intervention scripts and participant handouts. It is the only currently available eating disorder prevention program that has been shown to reduce risk for onset of eating disorders and received support in trials conducted by several independent research groups.

scholarly journals Instagrammed body craze and its effects on Pakistani young university female students

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 4 (Issue 3) ◽  
pp. 01-15
Author(s):  
Dr. Ayesha Qamar ◽  
Urwa Mahmmod butt ◽  
Dr. Samia Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of studying Instagram's influence is to evaluate the concept of a perfectly toned body that does not exist, as it has been promoted on Instagram. The image-based social networking site, i.e., Instagram, has become steadily popular among youth, especially young girls. Young girls use Instagram to spruce up images posted on it. A quantitative survey is used, and questionnaires are filled through an online examination. A convenient sampling method is used for data collection. The study included 204 young girls aged 18-25 from different universities in Islamabad. Social Comparison Theory helped to understand the influence of Instagram on changing body image and its disorder.Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used through Amos. The analysis revealed that the relationship between the use of Instagram and body dissatisfaction is positive and significant. The more the use of Instagram, the higher the body dissatisfaction among young girls. The relationship between Instagram usage and eating disorders had some correlation. It revealed that young girls who use Instagram excessively adopt eating disorders. Moreover, the study analyzed that there are more physical health symptoms identifies when Instagram usage is increased. The relationship between physical health symptoms and the use of Instagram was positive and useful.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pelatihan berpikir positif pada ketidakpuasan terhadap citra tubuh (body Image Dissatisfaction)

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhmad Mukhlis
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Body Image Dissatisfaction ◽  
T Test ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eating Disorders Inventory ◽  
Paired T Test

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sejauhmana pengaruh pelatihan berpikir positif terhadap ketidakpuasan terhadap citra tubuh. Penelitian ini menggunakan kerangka teori yang mengacu pada the Body Dissatisfaction subscale of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2 (EDI-2) yang disusun oleh Garner dkk.. Subjek adalah remaja perempuan sekolah menengah atas. Subjek memiliki skor EDI-2 tinggi dan bersedia menjadi subjek dibagi kedalam kelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol. Subjek kemudian diminta untuk mengisi EDI-2 sebanyak dua kali yaitu sebelum terapi (pretest), sesaat setelah terapi (posttest) serta diminta untuk menuliskan perkembangan emosinya selama pelatihan. Data dalam penelitian berupa data kuantitatif yang dilengkapi dengan data kualitatif untuk menguatkan penjelasan proses terapi, khususnya dari sisi subjek. Data kuantitatif kemudian dianalisis dengan uji-t dua sampel independen (Independent Sample t-test) dan uji berpasangan (Paired t-test) dengan bantuan program SPSS. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pada kelompok eksperimen terdapat perbedaan yang sangat signifikan antara skor EDI-2 pada saat posttest dibandingkan dengan saat pretest peningkatan skor sebesar 17,62 dan p = 0,000 (p < 0,05), sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol tidak ada perbedaan skor yang signifikan (p=0.824). Mengenai hasil-hasil temuan penelitian tersebut akan dipaparkan secara lebih luas di dalam diskusi

scholarly journals Adjusting Swedish gymnastics to the female nature: Discrepancies in the gendering of girls’ physical education in the mid-nineteenth century

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Johannes Westberg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Relationship

During the nineteenth century, Swedish gymnastics became one of the main models of physical education in the Western world. The purpose of this article is to explore how Swedish gymnastics was adjusted to the female body and mind in the mid-nineteenth century. Using handbooks published by the Swedish educationalist Anton Santesson as an empirical starting point, this article shows how the relationship between gender and gymnastics was complicated and exhibited significant discrepancies. In part, Swedish gymnastics was marked by a one-sex model of gender differences, which meant that gymnastics was perceived as a method for catering to the deficiencies and weaknesses of the feminine nature, in an attempt to make girls and young women more similar to boys. Swedish gymnastics had, nevertheless, vital elements of a two-sex model, according to which gymnastics was supposed to realise the true feminine nature of girls. Following this line of thought, Santesson claimed that, since gymnastics merely followed the laws of the body, it could not make girls more like boys. Santesson’s vision of gymnastics also included disciplinary mechanisms, such as the partitioning of space, which were gender neutral. Apart from presenting insights into the ambiguous and contradictory notions of gender in Swedish girls’ gymnastics, this article thus also raises questions regarding whether other models of physical education were marked by similar discrepancies during the nineteenth century. 

Feminine famishment: Graphic medicine and anorexia nervosa

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 518-534
Author(s):  
Sathyaraj Venkatesan ◽  
Anu Mary Peter
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Graphic Medicine ◽  
Susan Bordo ◽  
Shape And Size

Socio-cultural rigidities regarding the shape and size of a woman’s body have not only created an urgency to refashion themselves according to a range of set standards but also generated an infiltrating sense of body dissatisfaction and poor self-esteem leading to eating disorders. Interestingly, through an adept utilisation of the formal strengths of the medium of comics, many graphic medical anorexia narratives offer insightful elucidations on the question of how the female body is not merely a biological construction, but a biocultural construction too. In this context, by drawing theoretical postulates from Susan Bordo, David Morris and other theoreticians of varying importance, and by close reading Lesley Fairfield’s Tyranny and Katie Green’s Lighter than My Shadow, this article considers anorexia as the bodily manifestation of a cultural malady by analysing how cultural attitudes regarding body can be potential triggers of eating disorders in girls. Furthermore, this article also investigates why comics is the appropriate medium to provide a nuanced representation of the corporeal complications and socio-cultural intricacies of anorexia.

Body Dissatisfaction

Human Affairs ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L'Uboslava Sejčová
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Outward Appearance ◽  
Value System ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Universal Values

Body DissatisfactionThe author concentrates on the preference of the values of "the cult of the body" increasingly affecting the behaviour of young people and their position in the value system relating to generally recognized values. Too much emphasis on physical beauty and outward appearance significantly determines behaviour and can lead to a reduction in values relating to the body and body shape but also to unhealthy eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa. The focus is on the pathological perception of the body, on how culture and cultural norms affect body dissatisfaction. A research questionnaire on universal values and the cult of the body (2006) was used. The research sample consisted of 508 respondents aged between 18 and 26 (292 women and 216 men).

The relationship of perfectionism with changes in body dissatisfaction in eating disorders treatment outcome

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S166-S166
Author(s):  
T. Rodriguez Cano ◽  
L. Beato Fernandez ◽  
B. Mata Saenz ◽  
L. Rojo Moreno ◽  
F.J. Vaz Leal
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Core ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
One Year

IntroductionBody dissatisfaction is one of the core psychopathological components in Eating Disorders (EDs) and it tends to persist over time regardless treatment interventions. Perfectionism is considered as a mediator and moderator between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.ObjectivesTo study the influence of Perfectionism in EDs outcome.AimsTo analyze changes in body dissatisfaction at one year follow-up in patients with eating disorders and the effect of perfectionism over these changes.MethodsParticipants were 151 patients with eating disorders. DSM-IVTR diagnoses were as follows: 44 (29.1%) Anorexia Nervosa (AN), 55 (36.4%) Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and 52 (34.4%) Eating Disorders no Otherwise Specified (EDNOS). Perfectionism was assessed with the Edinburg Investigatory Test (EDI-2). The Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) was also distributed. One year after the beginning of their treatment, patients were reassessed.ResultsPatients with BN showed significantly higher scores on BSQ than those with AN. There was a significant improvement in BSQ after one year of treatment regardless the diagnostic (repeated measures ANOVA: F 8.4, P<.01). Perfectionism was a co-variable that influenced in those changes.ConclusionsThe results confirm the interaction between perfectionism and body dissatisfaction in the treatment outcome of EDs. It has been described an interplay between Perfectionism, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes and behaviours, being Perfectionism a moderator factor. The results highlight the need of dealing not only with the core symptoms of EDs, but also with the moderator factors such as Perfectionism to enhance the outcome.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Young Women Aspiring Fashion Models: The Mediating Role of Stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 607-615
Author(s):  
Sabrina Castellano ◽  
Agostino Rizzotto ◽  
Sergio Neri ◽  
Walter Currenti ◽  
Claudia Savia Guerrera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Eating Disorder Symptoms ◽  
Fashion Models ◽  
The Relationship

It is widely recognized that body dissatisfaction is an important public health concern. In the past, being a fashion model was almost synonymous with anorexia/bulimia, and even today, there are cases of eating disorders in young women whose ambition is to become a top model. Moreover, stress can play a substantial role within ill health via related behaviors such as smoking, substance abuse, and inappropriate eating. In our study, we examined 112 aspiring fashion models aged between 15 and 24 years (M = 19.5, SD = 2.08) from 32 different countries of the world during an international contest, and 100 students (control group), aged between 16 and 22 years (M = 18.6, SD = 1.39). The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether stress mediated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. The study included the administration of stress and self-efficacy and the locus of control dimensions, body (image) dissatisfaction, and eating attitude disorder. Results indicated higher scores on body dissatisfaction, stress level, and eating attitudes disorder among the group of fashion models compared to the control. Mediational analyses showed that body dissatisfaction was partially mediated by stress level on eating disorders. Especially in the aspiring fashion models, there are often many possibilities that competitive stress causes candidates to exacerbate attempts to maintain their body weight below normal weight/height parameters. These results indicated that appropriate intervention for the management of stress level could possibly defend against the negative impact of body dissatisfaction on eating disorder symptoms. The presence of skilled health workers in the field of nutrition and psychology can be extremely important in the field of fashion to maintain an adequate quality of life.

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