In contemporary society, social media use has become a widespread daily activity,
especially among adolescents, who are often engaged in visual content sharing. Taking and …

The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture.
Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to …

In the mid-1990s, Thomas F. Cash developed the construct of appearance investment and
an instrument to measure it, the Appearance Schemas Inventory (ASI). This was followed by …

Research into growth mindset, the belief that attributes are malleable, has increased
dramatically in the last 30 years, leading to an explosion in the number of mindset domains …

We proposed that the Prescriptive Beauty Norm (PBN), the injunctive demand for women to
intensively pursue beauty, reflects motives to maintain gender hierarchy and translates into …

Early adolescents (N= 1,591; Mage= 11.698; SD= 0.892) participated in a two‐wave panel
study (6‐month interval) to examine the longitudinal association between appearance …

The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally,
thanks in large part to its many manifestations on screen. Yet the history and relevance of …

The behavior of undergoing cosmetic surgery is a coping strategy for body-image threats
and challenges. Self-objectification is associated with alienation and body image inflexibility …

Prior research has examined the influence of media exposure on adolescents' sexualized
self-concept, but engagement in sexualizing appearance behaviors remains understudied …

The aim of study is to examine the relationship between social appearance anxiety,
automatic thoughts and depression, anxiety, and stress in university students. The research …