Adaptive body image can be contagious: An examination of college women facing situational body image threats

2022/07/06 by Kathryn Miller, Kathryn E. Miller, Allison C. Kelly +2 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Media Influence and Health

paper · doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.06.008

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Citations

• Is self-compassion contagious? An examination of whether hearing a display of self-compassion impacts self-compassion in the listener.
• Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
• Relational body image: Preliminary evidence that body image varies within a person from one specific relationship to another

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Discussions

• #TBT Kathryn Miller, Allison Kelly and Giselle Kraus' paper published in #BodyImage explores how adaptive body image can be learned from hearing a peer cope with their body image distress. Read it h [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]