The perfect storm: A developmental–sociocultural framework for the role of social media in adolescent girls' body image concerns and mental health

S Choukas-Bradley, SR Roberts, AJ Maheux… - Clinical child and family …, 2022 - Springer
In this theoretical review paper, we provide a developmental–sociocultural framework for the
role of social media (SM) in adolescent girls' body image concerns, and in turn, depressive …

Body image and internalization of appearance ideals in Black women: An update and call for culturally-sensitive research

AS Lowy, RF Rodgers, DL Franko, E Pluhar, JB Webb - Body Image, 2021 - Elsevier
Extant research on body image supports sociocultural theories emphasizing the
internalization of societal pressures to attain the thin-ideal, as well as other White or …

Demographic predictors of body image satisfaction: The US Body Project I

DA Frederick, CE Crerand, TA Brown, M Perez… - Body image, 2022 - Elsevier
We examined how gender, body mass, race, age, and sexual orientation were linked to
appearance evaluation, overweight preoccupation, and body image-related quality of life …

The sources and consequences of sexual objectification

LM Ward, EA Daniels, EL Zurbriggen… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a
cultural prioritizing of women's sexual appearance and appeal over other attributes. Sexual …

The Sociostructural-Intersectional Body Image (SIBI) framework: Understanding the impact of white supremacy in body image research and practice

AM Landor, VLR Winter, IB Thurston, J Chan… - Body Image, 2024 - Elsevier
White supremacy and racial inequities have long pervaded psychological research,
including body image scholarship and practice. The experiences of white, heterosexual …

Eating to cope: Advancing our understanding of the effects of exposure to racial discrimination on maladaptive eating behaviors

KL Brown, AK Graham, RA Perera… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Racial discrimination is a stressor for young Black women that leads to poor health
outcomes, including maladaptive eating. This study presents findings on racial …

It's more than skin-deep: Gendered racial microaggressions, skin tone satisfaction, and traumatic stress symptoms among Black women

DRG Sissoko, JA Lewis… - Journal of Black …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the moderating effects of skin tone and skin tone satisfaction on the
relations between gendered racial microaggressions and traumatic stress symptoms among …

The Happy American Body 2.0: Predictors of affective body satisfaction in two US national internet panel surveys

DA Frederick, JR Garcia, AN Gesselman, KP Mark… - Body image, 2020 - Elsevier
The first national study of body image was reported four decades ago in the article The
Happy American Body (Berscheid et al., 1973). To provide a modern follow-up to this study …

Weight teasing experienced during adolescence and young adulthood: Cross‐sectional and longitudinal associations with disordered eating behaviors in an …

L Hooper, R Puhl, ME Eisenberg… - … Journal of Eating …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study assessed cross‐sectional and longitudinal relationships between
weight teasing and disordered eating in an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse …

Black adolescents' appearance concerns, depressive symptoms, and self-objectification: Exploring the roles of gender and ethnic-racial identity commitment

BA Ladd, AJ Maheux, SR Roberts, S Choukas-Bradley - Body Image, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a dearth of research examining Black adolescents' body image, with even less work
examining gender differences or the influence of ethnic-racial identity (ERI) commitment. It is …