Sociocultural forces promoting a thin ideal body for women have shaped our understanding of problematic eating attitudes and behaviours throughout the 20th century, giving rise to the modern, thinness-oriented definition of disordered eating. More recent cultural expectations of a lean and muscular body, particularly for males, have been named as likely contributors to the growing prevalence of...

Aim
 To analyze the concept of body image disturbance in female adolescents using online learning platforms as a phenomenon interest to nurse practitioners and other health care practitioners.
 Background
 With declaration COVID-19 pandemic, use primary mode has increased exponentially among adolescents. While research is still lacking this field, literature on traditional social...

Research suggests that exposure to mass media depicting the thin-ideal body may be linked to body image disturbance in women. This meta-analysis examined experimental and correlational studies testing the links between media exposure to women's body dissatisfaction, internalization of the thin ideal, and eating behaviors and beliefs with a sample of 77 studies that yielded 141 effect sizes. The...