The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior

The Meaning of Size 85 popularity of actresses such as Jane Russell in the 1940s and Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s, who were known ...

86 The Meaning of Size Figure 5.1 Contemporary ideals of beauty. (Source: Advertising Archives.) Image not available in the elec ...

The Meaning of Size 87 to the influence of gay culture (O’Kelly, 1994), and a change from a muscular physique to one that is “sl ...

88 The Meaning of Size Specifically, the woman was consistently associated with affective traits such as “warm,” “expressive,” a ...

The Meaning of Size 89 of women are becoming thinner, then a larger size reflects unattractive- ness and thinness is essentially ...

90 The Meaning of Size judged them stupid, 90 percent unsuccessful, 90 percent weak, 86 percent lazy, 69 percent not nice, 65 pe ...

The Meaning of Size 91 their bodies refers to the cultural factors outside themselves” (1986, p. 70). Bordo (1990), in her essay ...

92 The Meaning of Size Figure 5.3 The meaning of size: Control. (Source: Advertising Archives.) Image not available in the elect ...

The Meaning of Size 93 individualistic break with constraints of class society” (p. 72). She argued, “It was a break with the pa ...

94 The Meaning of Size Figure 5.4 The meaning of size: Success. (Source: Advertising Archives.) Image not available in the elect ...

The Meaning of Size 95 in Ghanaian and American students and reported that the Ghanaian students rated larger bodies as closer t ...

96 The Meaning of Size the fault of the individual, the characteristics associated with it reflect the belief that it is somethi ...

6 Body Dissatisfaction Eating or not eating food can cause changes in the body’s size and shape. Worry about such changes consti ...

98 Body Dissatisfaction body image and body dissatisfaction can be found in Ben-Tovim and Walker (1991b), Thompson (1990), Cash ...

Body Dissatisfaction 99 consistently shown that most girls and women would like to be thinner than they are and most males would ...

100 Body Dissatisfaction (Ben-Tovim and Walker, 1991a), the Body Esteem Scale (Franzoi and Shields, 1984), and the Body Dissatis ...

Body Dissatisfaction 101 a discrepancy between their real and ideal weight, have actively dieted during the past 6 months, parti ...

102 Body Dissatisfaction attractiveness, upper-body strength, and physical condition; and report a preferred size which is diffe ...

Body Dissatisfaction 103 Sexuality Most research examining body dissatisfaction has ignored the sexuality of the participants be ...

104 Body Dissatisfaction Ethnicity Body dissatisfaction has predominantly been seen as a problem for white women, and this is in ...