Body functionality describes everything that the body is able to do, across diverse domains
(eg, bodily senses, creative endeavours). Nearly a decade ago, leading scholars identified …

There are a number of studies that have conducted comparisons of body appreciation
between males and females. However, findings are largely inconsistent, making it unclear …

Body image disturbance is associated with several mental disorders. Previous research on
body image has focused mostly on women, largely neglecting body image in men …

Abstract The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of
the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement …

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 …

The emergence of positive body image research during the last 10 years represents an
important shift in the body image literature. The existing evidence provides a strong …

Although the study of body image has been dominated by a focus on negative aspects,
recent research interest has turned towards positive body image. The purpose of the present …

Studies examining associations between positive body image and well-being have used a
limited array of measures of each construct. To rectify this, we asked an online sample of …

We examined how gender, body mass, race, age, and sexual orientation were linked to
appearance evaluation, overweight preoccupation, and body image-related quality of life …

Objectification theory proposes that widespread sexualization causes women to engage in
surveillance of their appearance. We integrated this concept into a model with constructs …