Background: Increased demands for invasive and non-invasive treatments related to body image disturbances are seen worldwide. These may be dissatisfaction. No study date investigated the relationship between dissatisfaction dental anxiety (namely, anticipatory treatment anxiety) among a non-clinical population. The current aims unveil such relationships. Methods: Dentally anxious people choose ...

backgroundit is not clearly specified that which of the components of body mass index (bmi) affect body image and which of them do not. given that having information in this regard is of special importance as a basis for future planning for adolescents, the present research aimed to compare body image in female and male adolescents and study its relationship with body mass index in high school ...

background and aim: adolescence is an important stage of life accompanied by deep physical and psychological changes frequently leading to body image dissatisfaction. body image dissatisfaction, found to predict the formation of eating disturbaces, psychiatric disturbances and low self- esteem. the present study examined the body image dissatisfaction and body mass index in adolescent girls. me...

This study examined motivational predictors of body image concerns, self-presentation and self-perceptions using Self-determination Theory as a guiding framework. Aerobic instructors (N = 149) completed questionnaires measuring general need satisfaction, exercise motivational regulations, body image concerns, social physique anxiety and self-perceptions. Introjected regulation predicted all out...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to determine the effects of media-portrayed idealized images on young women's body shame and appearance anxiety, and to establish whether the effects depend on advertisement type and on participant self-objectification. METHOD Participants were 39 female university students. Twenty-four magazine advertisements comprised 12 body-related and 12 non-body-related...