Cultural Variations in Body Esteem: How Young Adults in Iran and the United States View Their Own Appearances

Akiba, Daisuke

doi:10.1080/00224549809600409

Cited by 31 publications

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“…In a particular study, female and male Iranian college students were compared with their American counterparts. As expected, the Iranian female students scored considerably higher www.intechopen.com than the U.S. participants when asked to assess their body-esteem, while men, from both countries, scored higher than the women (Akiba, 1998). These results suggest that the current access to Western mass media has had a more significant impact amongst the female population.…”

Section: Homogenisation Processes Of the Body Ideal Regarding Physicasupporting

confidence: 60%

Westernization: The Role of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders

Sepúlveda¹,

Calado²

2012

Relevant Topics in Eating Disorders

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Section: Homogenisation Processes Of the Body Ideal Regarding Physicasupporting

confidence: 60%

Westernization: The Role of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders

Sepúlveda¹,

Calado²

2012

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“…He attributed his results to the availability of 'body-conscious' Western media that people in the United States are exposed to, whereas in Iran (at least at the time of the study), such media was completely kept out (Akiba, 1998). Similarly, the authors of another cross-cultural comparison, a study showing that US males were more dissatisfied with their muscularity than Ukrainian and Ghanaian males, argued that the exposure to Western media and the stringent Western beauty ideals may put people at higher risk for developing body dissatisfaction (Frederick, Buchanan, Sadehgi-Azar, Peplau, Haselton, & Berezovskaya, 2007a;Frederick, Forbes, Grigorian, & Jarcho, 2007b).…”

Section: Cultural Differences In Body Dissatisfactionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Body dissatisfaction across cultures: Findings and research problems

Holmqvist

Frisén

2009

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

113

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This review had two aims. The first aim was to describe the existing literature regarding body dissatisfaction across cultures. Previous studies were organized and presented according to three general patterns found in the existing literature, patterns that were to some extent based on the differing degrees of affluence and type of lifestyles in the cultures examined. The review's second aim was to illuminate some of the specific problems that studies of body dissatisfaction across cultures deal with and to provide suggestions for improvement. The suggestions concern how future research may achieve a more inclusive and detailed picture of body dissatisfaction across cultures, for instance by using diversified measurements, providing detailed information about the cultural groups that are examined, investigating how different risk factors may influence the level of body dissatisfaction in different cultures and widening the research geographically.

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“…Akiba (1998) examined the body image of Iranians living in Iran, a culture that has outlawed the influx of Western media since the Islamic revolution of 1978. Iranian women in the sample had more positive views of their bodies than a comparison sample of American women, although women in both samples had less positive views of their bodies than men in both samples.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%