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- Title
DEVELOPMENTAL TEASING ABOUT PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: RETROSPECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH BODY IMAGE.
- Authors
Cash, Thomas F.
- Abstract
Among the potential influences on body-image development are experiences of appearance-related teasing and criticism during childhood or adolescence. The present study of 111 female college students examined the recollection of such experiences. Persistent appearance teasing/criticism was commonly recalled and its physical foci were diverse, though facial characteristics and weight were apparently most often targeted. Peers were deemed the worst perpetrators of appearance teasing/criticism, yet family members, especially brothers, were also often implicated. Women who reported having had more prevalent and distressing experiences of this nature currently held more dissatisfying and disturbing body images.
- Subjects
BODY image; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Social Behavior & Personality: an international journal, 1995, Vol 23, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0301-2212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2224/sbp.1995.23.2.123