The image of the body is dynamic perception as it looks, feels, and moves. It formed by perception, emotions, physical sensations not static, but can change in terms mood ways. In self-esteem, which a positive negative orientation towards itself, general assessment values or qualities. His study analyzing relationship between self-esteem levels relation to perceptions adolescents have image. wa...

AIM OF THE STUDY Analysis of changes in self-perception in post-mastectomy patients and its comparison with self-perception of healthy women. MATERIAL AND METHODS The subjects of this study were 50 women. The main group was post-mastectomy patients involved in the meetings of the Amazons Club (25 women). The reference group consisted of 25 healthy women. The method used in the study was the A...

the contemporary french literature beholds the considerable presence of works which frankly speak of the writer’s “self”. the trinal circles of writer-character-narrator triangle is mixed and created a current of literature dominated by the “first person”. many critics believe this matter demonstrates the dominance if “individualism” in today’s society. meaning, an individual society which plac...

OBJECTIVE Historical and contemporary research has posited links between eating disorders and religious asceticism. This study aimed to examine relationships between eating disorders, religion, and treatment. METHOD Qualitative study using purposeful sampling, applying audiotaped and transcribed depth interview, subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. RESULTS Participants wer...

Appearance goals for exercise are consistently associated with negative body image, but research has yet to consider the processes that link these two variables. Self-determination theory offers one such process: introjected (guilt-based) regulation of exercise behavior. Study 1 investigated these relationships within a cross-sectional sample of female UK students (n=215, 17-30 years). Appearan...

Immigrants experience conflicting values more frequently than "native" citizens. When experienced by immigrants in their teens, clashing values can give rise to feelings of rejection, as well as a negative self-image and image of others; in some cases, these opposing values even lead to family breakups. The identity crisis worsens if the messages conveyed by the social environment are contradic...