We examined the sociocultural model of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitude development in young girls for the first time. According to the model, internalizing an unrealistically thin ideal body increases the risk of disordered eating via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression. Girls aged 7-11 years (N=127) completed measures of thin-ideal internalization, body ...

Background India, despite growing tangentially in global economic stature, has a population of over 78 million homeless people. While the phenomenon of homelessness violates the most basic of human rights for all populations, it influences every facet of women’s life affecting their physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and behavioural growth. The prevalent attitude and stereotypes in Indian ...


 ABSTRACT
 In the current decades, family-pressure, peer-pressure, and media-pressureare playing a vital role in leadingto body image dissatisfaction among working women.
 Purpose:The main objective of study was to find out effect peer-pressure media-pressure on women. Design/Methodology/Approach:The research based cross-sectional survey. The sample consisted 250 Sociocultural A...

OBJECTIVE We examined the potential for ethnicity to moderate the relationships between awareness and internalization of sociocultural ideals of appearance and between internalization and body dissatisfaction. METHOD Spanish (n = 100), Mexican American (n = 100), and European American (n = 100) female participants completed measures of sociocultural attitudes and body dissatisfaction. Path an...

BACKGROUND Open family discussion on reproductive health (RH) issues often leads to increased awareness on RH matters and reduces risky behaviors among adolescents. This study was conducted to assess factors affecting parent-adolescent discussion on RH issues in Harar, Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey using face to face interview supplemented with focus group discussion (FGD) was co...

The study was conducted to access the attitude of B.Ed. students towards learning through ICT in relation to their learning style. The objectives of the study was to study the overall favorable attitude of B.Ed. students towards learning through ICT, to study relationship between the attitudes of B.Ed. students towards ICT and their learning style, to study the difference in the attitude of mal...

This study examined the relationships between weight concern and control and theoretically and empirically relevant correlates in a Hispanic college student sample. Participants were 163 Hispanic college students who completed measures assessing demographics, willingness to put health at risk to lose weight, unhealthy weight loss methods, acculturation, body weight and fitness happiness and imp...