Body dissatisfaction is an important correlate of dysfunctional eating. In the present study (N=208) the primary aim was to test whether women's internal and autonomous motivation can protect against endorsements of societal pressures regarding the ideal female body and against body dissatisfaction. Additionally, the role of others' autonomy support was investigated. Women who reported more Glo...

BACKGROUND The role of gender inequities in explaining women's access to reproductive health care was examined in four countries (two sub-Saharan African and two South Asian countries). The extent of gender inequities varies across and within countries, and is rooted in the different cultural practices and gender norms within these different countries, and differences in the status and autonomy...

OBJECTIVE Social support is believed to contribute to weight loss success, yet the type of support received is rarely assessed. To develop more effective weight loss interventions, examinations of the types of support that are associated with positive outcomes are needed. Self-Determination Theory suggests that support for an individual's autonomy is beneficial and facilitates internalization o...

Black women living with HIV (BWLWH) contend injuries of injustice, which manifest in restricted reproductive autonomy and decision-making power social medical settings. Mitigating threats to calls for innovations that consider patients' needs offer insights on how historically situated marginalization influences today's institutional, political, economic systems shapes decision making. In addit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Fertility control preferences and maternal healthcare have recently become a major concern for developing nations with evidence suggesting that low fertility control rates and poor maternal healthcare are among major obstructions in ensuring health and social status for women. Our objective was toanalyze the factors that influence women's autonomy, access to maternal he...

Rising tuition costs have forced university students to become creative in finding ways to fund their education. Some female university students have decided that ova donation may be an acceptable alternative in which to pay for their tuition. This alternative presents itself because of the insufficient number of ova available for assisted reproduction and emerging stem cell technologies. Young...

This article explores the trajectory of three rural, precarious Cambodian women as they deploy land a means undertaking survival work in Cambodia. Using gendered lens vis-à-vis concept autonomy, this rethinks distress sales and collateralized for microfinance borrowing forms everyday autonomy. By highlighting women's central role social reproductive labour to reproduce rural household, these ac...

This article asks whether blogging in the United Kingdom, which started later than in the United States, reproduces the gender differences in blogging behavior and the gender inequalities in recognition that have been observed in studies based largely on U.S. bloggers. A sample of 48 female and male British bloggers answered a questionnaire about their blogging practices and attitudes; data wer...

Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine potential moderating effect of autonomy on this relation also consider corresponding role gender. First, individual fixed effects panel estimations reaffirm both negative link h...