Body image is a complex mental and physical characteristics with changing physical sensations, emotions and aspects of self-esteem. It is sensitive to the moods, emotions and maintenance of water weight. Through interaction with others, develop the picture of perceptions about the body and strengthen what we learn culture.
The University of British Columbia (Department of Psychiatry) has investigated how women with anorexia express negative feelings. The study on 21 women with anorexia nervosa (focus for DSM-IV) compared to 21 normal women. Those suffering from anorexia have better for the suppression of anger and difficulties of expression of negative emotions (published in 2000, done in the International Journal of Eating Disorders).
Poor body image alone does not lead to bulimia or anorexia. It occurs all over the world (not just students or young) and could become a problem at school and go to the children of pre-teens. Poor body image rotates cause are complex psychological problems, which end is not essential as eating disorders, severe damage to body organs and systems.
A study of 16 months from the University of Melbourne (School of Psychology) in Australia to assess to clarify the use of biopsychosocial models on body image in normal and overweight girls and boys.
Questionnaire assessed the predictive role of self-esteem, the Body Mass Index (BMI) and pressures reached an apparent weight loss of girls and boys (aged 9.2 to 9.3 years). The study found that in 18 months that girls and boys are overweight are more dissatisfied and to focus on their weight, while they also suffered from low self-esteem (less than their peers, the normal weight). The journal Appetite published the study in 2005.
A study of 12 months from the University of Washington’s 7th Year and 10 girls and boys, research on how that body develops and discontent, such as peer and social relationships, psychological factors and the “BMI contributed. The results show that body cause dissatisfaction among the girls in the comparison appearance conversations with friends and the mass, while the boys their internalization by comparisons of their own ideals muscle. These results appeared in 2004 in the Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Another Australian study in 2006 in the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and adolescents published by the School of Psychological Science, Melbourne, found that body dissatisfaction is an important risk factor for the development of low self-esteem, self-esteem and depression.
Image psychology studies identified the body, why and how people react, but not necessarily to find ways to improve. to teach only by a successful test of the psychological impact and implementation of effective interventions for people dealing with eating disorders and to correct their perceptions of body image.
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