Body image concerns related to weight or other dimensions of appearance are now
prevalent on a global scale. This paper reviews the theoretical frameworks that account for …

In this theoretical review paper, we provide a developmental–sociocultural framework for the
role of social media (SM) in adolescent girls' body image concerns, and in turn, depressive …

Objectives This systematic review assessed the influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic and
associated restrictions on body image, disordered eating (DE), and eating disorder …

Abstract Objective Eating disorders (EDs) were once conceptualized as primarily affecting
affluent, White women, a misconception that informed research and practice for many years …

The stereotype that eating disorders (ED) primarily present among individuals of higher
socioeconomic status (SES) has long persisted in popular and professional perception. This …

Extant research on body image supports sociocultural theories emphasizing the
internalization of societal pressures to attain the thin-ideal, as well as other White or …

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 …

BackgroundLongstanding biases have fostered the erroneous notion that only those of
higher socioeconomic status (SES) experience eating disorders (EDs); however, EDs …

The First Edition of The Thin Woman, first published in 1998, provides an in-depth
discussion of anorexia nervosa from a critical feminist social psychological standpoint. In the …

Transgender adolescents (TGAs) face many of the same sociocultural and biological
influences on body dissatisfaction and disordered eating as cisgender peers. Additionally …