Effects of exposure to information about appearance sterotyping and discrimination on women's body images
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The influence of exposure to information regarding social advantages of physical attractiveness and liabilities of unattractiveness on women's body images, is examined.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 2001
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The assessment of body image investment: an extensive revision of the Appearance Schemas Inventory
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The Appearance Schemas Inventory (ASI), a 14-item instrument that assesses body image investment in relation to certain assumptions about the importance, meaning and influence of appearance in once life is reviewed. The result led to a revision of the inventory (ASI- R), which included Self Evaluative Salience and Motivational Salience.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 2004
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The nature and extent of body-image disturbances in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: a meta-analysis
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A meta-analysis of existing research on body image and eating disorders was conducted to examine the parameters of body image of women suffering from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. A review of 60 studies conducted between 1974 and 1993 indicates that women with clinical eating disorders experience greater body image dissatisfaction and perceptual body-size distortion than women free from these conditions.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 1997
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