Disclosure statement: The Authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. This material is
based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research …

White supremacy and racial inequities have long pervaded psychological research,
including body image scholarship and practice. The experiences of white, heterosexual …

Social media have drastically changed the context of adolescent development. To date, the
majority of research investigating the effects of these changes has measured time spent on …

During early and middle adolescence, individuals are at heightened risk of poor body image
and subsequent negative mental health outcomes, and the highly visual nature of social …

Research on body image and racism has largely focused on how individual experiences of
racism are associated with detrimental body image outcomes. However, research has not …

The current study uses a mixed method design to investigate Kenyan and Ghanaian
adolescents' experiences of puberty, and the relations between gender, country of origin …

Theoretical work on objectified body consciousness, comprised of body surveillance and
body shame, proposes several negative sequelae of holding an objectified view of the self …

The surge in the popularity of image-based social media (IBSM) raises concerns about its
negative impacts, such as fostering unrealistic beauty and body-shape (BBS) standards and …

Objective Engaging in romantic relationships in adolescence may inadvertently increase
participation in appearance culture and the risk for eating pathology. Little research has …

Physical appearance evaluation is important in the emotional wellbeing of adolescent girls;
however, hair satisfaction may be a distinct domain of appearance evaluation, particularly …