Sociocultural Idealization of Thin Female Body Shapes: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Body Image and Eating Disorders

By J. Polivy, C. Herman. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Museology

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1. Renee Engeln-Maddox

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1. Renee Engeln-Maddox

Citations in the corpus

• COGNITIVE RESPONSES TO IDEALIZED MEDIA IMAGES OF WOMEN: THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL COMPARISON AND CRITICAL PROCESSING TO BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE IN COLLEGE WOMEN (2005, background): “Richins (1991) conducted focus group interviews with college women and found evidence of specific comparisons with models featured in media images, as well as negative self–related feelings resulting from exposure to these images.”
• An examination of general and specific motivational mechanisms for the relations between body dissatisfaction and eating behaviors (2007, unknown): “…influence the development of body image-related problems, a number of researchers have focused on the sociocultural pressures about body image and the internalization of the “thin–ideal” as risk factors for body dissatisfaction (Dittmar, 2005; Levine & Harrison, 2004; Polivy & Herman, 2004).”