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5 gru 2016 · Body image is defined as an individual’s perception about their body condition. One of the internal factors that can build body image is personality.
The purpose of this article is to review the current body of relevant literature on body image, highlighting the specific of anthropological approach to subject: the variability of the phenomenon according to sex/gender, age/ stage of ontogenetic development, race / ethnicity and medical context.
1 lip 1994 · Given the widespread debate on the definition of the terms “Body Schema” and “Body Image”, this article presents a broad overview of the studies that have investigated the nature of these...
Extracting insights from quantitative and qualitative research, this article demonstrates that positive body image is (a) distinct from negative body image; (b) multifaceted (including body appreciation, body acceptance/love, conceptualizing beauty broadly, adaptive invest-ment in appearance, inner positivity, interpreting information in a body-...
In the body image literature, researchers typically focus on a discrepancy between how one sees one’s self (actual/own) and how one would ideally like to be (ideal/own), while acknowledging that the ideal/own self might well reflect an internalization of society’s standards of attractiveness.
Body image is a term used in psychology and other related fields to describe how a person perceives their own body shape and appearance and also discusses the poten- tial impacts on emotions and mental health [83].
influences to body image theory came from sur-geons’ accounts of unusual body experiences in patients with amputations, otherwise known as a “phantom limb syndrome.” This phenomenon played a significant role in understanding how body perception is organized in the brain. Body image distortion was first recognized as
