Effects of a body image curriculum for college students on improved body image

Springer, Elizabeth A.; Winzelberg, Andrew J.; Perkins, Rebecca B.; Taylor, C. Barr

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-108x(199907)26:1<13::aid-eat2>3.0.co;2-5

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“…First, the baseline scores on the outcome measures were considerably lower than those reported in other studies that have focused on higher-risk populations [28,29,30]. As others have suggested, interventions shown to be beneficial for women with high weight and shape concerns or partial-syndrome eating disorders may be ineffective with women with lower levels of concern or behaviors [20,28].…”

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An evaluation of an Internet-delivered eating disorder prevention program for adolescents and their parents

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Journal of Adolescent Health

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An evaluation of an Internet-delivered eating disorder prevention program for adolescents and their parents

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“…Research based in Australia and the United States has shown that programs designed to raise body esteem in male and female adolescents (O'Dea and Abraham 2000) and adults (Springer et al 1999) can be effective for improving body image. The idea behind these programs is that once self-esteem has improved, body image will also improve as a by-product of the self-esteem intervention.…”

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Promoting Positive Body Image in Males and Females: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

Grogan

2010

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Research presented in this special issue focuses on a number of key contemporary themes relating to gendered body image. This paper considers what these studies tell us about the associations between body image and self-esteem, internalization of thin/muscular ideals, social comparison, and social identity and makes suggestions for interventions to improve body image in girls/ women and boys/men. It is concluded that psycho-social interventions to reduce internalization, to make social comparison processes more realistic, to raise self-esteem and to enable people to question social identities related to body dissatisfaction may be useful short-term solutions to improving body image in males and females with negative images of their bodies. Since most evidence for effectiveness of these kinds of interventions has focused on women and girls, more work is needed on how to make these effective for men and boys.

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“…Fortunately, the need for fresh solutions to eating disorders is being recognized by the Surgeon General, eating disorder practitioners, and researchers. [22][23][24][25][26] For example, these groups are launching national media campaigns, and are promoting campus-based programs and awareness activities to prevent and alleviate eating disorders. I see ripe potential in online support groups for bolstering these important strides toward remedying the silent-and widely sanctioned-eating disorder epidemic in the United States.…”

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"You Know, Who's the Thinnest?": Combating Surveillance and Creating Safety in Coping with Eating Disorders Online

Walstrom

2000

CyberPsychology & Behavior

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Online support groups have become highly attractive to seekers of health advice. These sites offer rich online support and information, which may be enjoyed in a nonthreatening environment. The "bodiless" nature of online support groups helps ensure participants' sense of safety, because judgments relating to physical appearances are largely decreased. This article examines interaction in an online eating disorder support group, where such safety cannot be assumed. Because women with anorexia and bulimia routinely discuss problems relating to appearances (size and weight), the risk of monitoring and negatively evaluating oneself and others jeopardizes the safety of interaction in this online context. In a microlevel discourse analysis of three exchanges, the linguistic structure and joint nature of creating a safe communicative context is traced, as it unfolds amid solving a problem concerning physical appearances. The aim is to illuminate the therapeutic potential of online forums for women with eating disorders, namely, as safe spaces for coping with eating disorder-related problems. This study calls for increased inquiry of online forums as viable alternatives to face-toface eating disorder support groups, as anorexia and bulimia continue to proliferate in the United States. 761

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Effects of a body image curriculum for college students on improved body image

Cited by 35 publications

References 33 publications

An evaluation of an Internet-delivered eating disorder prevention program for adolescents and their parents

An evaluation of an Internet-delivered eating disorder prevention program for adolescents and their parents

Promoting Positive Body Image in Males and Females: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

"You Know, Who's the Thinnest?": Combating Surveillance and Creating Safety in Coping with Eating Disorders Online

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