Differences of body image and factors influencing body image through the life span of women

Sohn, Eunjung

doi:10.18205/kpa.2011.16.3.006

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“…An especially interesting result is that body image more strongly predicted medication adherence than insight or mental health confidence. This result supports previous studies that found poor medication adherence when women with mental disorders considered themselves overweight or perceived their body image negatively, were not satisfied with their body types, and wished they were thinner [5], and studies reporting that medication adherence was more strongly associated with subjective stress from weight than objective weight indicated by BMI [34,41]. Therefore, in order to improve medication adherence among young adult women with mental disorders, a patient-centered approach to factors interfering with medication adherence is necessary, including close assessments of perceptions of and dissatisfaction with body image and efforts to understand negative or distorted beliefs and attitudes toward body image dissatisfaction.…”

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The Influence of Body Image, Insight, and Mental Health Confidence on Medication Adherence in Young Adult Women with Mental Disorders

Lee

Jang

2021

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The aim of this descriptive study was to investigate the impact of body image, insight, and mental health confidence on medication adherence among young adult women with mental disorders. Data collection occurred from August to September 2018. The study participants were 147 young adult women aged 19 to 45 with mental disorders who were psychiatry outpatients either getting treatment in general hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province or receiving rehabilitation therapy through local mental health welfare centers in Korea, and agreed to participate in the study. The measurement tools used were the Body Image Scale; the Scale to Assess Unawareness of Mental Disorder, Korean short-form version; the Korean version of the Mental Health Confidence Scale; and the Korean version of the Medication Compliance Scale. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis in SPSS/WIN 25.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Medication adherence among the study participants differed by age (F = 2.95, p = 0.042), religion (t = −2.06, p = 0.042), level of trust in psychiatrists (F = 5.40, p = 0.006), treatment duration (F = 4.48, p = 0.005), and noncompliance to medication regimens due to weight gain (t = −2.61, p = 0.010). Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that body image (β = −0.32, p < 0.001), insight (β = −0.24, p = 0.002), and mental health confidence (β = 0.24, p = 0.004) had a significant impact on the medication adherence of the participants. Body image, in particular, had the greatest influence on the medication adherence of the participants. This study found that body image, insight, and mental health confidence were important in improving medication adherence among young adult women with mental disorders. Practical, patient-centered, and individualized approaches that can improve medication adherence by seeking to understand negative perceptions regarding body image should be considered.

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“…According to a previous study [34], women in their 20s tend to observe and worry about how their bodies look more than women in other age groups, and care the most about their appearance according to the eyes of others. This finding is identical to the results of other previous studies with people with mental disorders [5].…”

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The Influence of Body Image, Insight, and Mental Health Confidence on Medication Adherence in Young Adult Women with Mental Disorders

Lee

Jang

2021

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“…Based on the above literature, the present research conducted another study to examine whether lateral SESrelated social comparison with thin images could buffer the potential harmful influence of upward shape-related comparison with thin images on women's body image and eating behaviour. Lateral comparison occurs when people compare themselves to those who are perceived to be the same in a particular domain (Harris, Anseel, & Lievens, 2008;Sohn, 2010), which generally has positive effects (Wheeler & Miyake, 1992). In Study 2, the present research hypothesised that women exposed to thin images with parallel-perceived SES on social media would experience more body appreciation and weight satisfaction, and have less self-objectification and unhealthy food consumption than women exposed to thin images with high-perceived SES.…”

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Being Successful and Being Thin: The Effects of Thin-Ideal Social Media Images With High Socioeconomic Status on Women's Body Image and Eating Behaviour

Cui

2018

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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Social media has outpaced traditional media to be the most popular sociocultural channel to transmit thin-ideal images, an established trigger for body image concerns and disordered eating in women. With an experimental design, the present research first demonstrated that exposure to thin images on social media threatened women's body image and increased their unhealthy food consumption (Study 1). However, given that thin images posted on social media are usually from wealthier people, the present research hypothesised that it may not be the body shape but the perceived socioeconomic status (SES) of images that indeed have negative effects on women. By manipulating the perceived SES of thin images and incorporating a baseline control group (Study 2), the present research provided causal evidence for the hypothesis by indicating that viewing thin images with parallel-perceived SES could significantly buffer undesirable thin-ideal effects on self-objectification and food intake. Therefore, future research needs to pay more attention to the role of SES in the thin media images literature.

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A consensual qualitative study on the conflict of “escape the corset” within the group of Korean feminist women in their 20s

Jung,

Jang

2024

Curr Psychol

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Differences of body image and factors influencing body image through the life span of women

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

The Influence of Body Image, Insight, and Mental Health Confidence on Medication Adherence in Young Adult Women with Mental Disorders

The Influence of Body Image, Insight, and Mental Health Confidence on Medication Adherence in Young Adult Women with Mental Disorders

Being Successful and Being Thin: The Effects of Thin-Ideal Social Media Images With High Socioeconomic Status on Women's Body Image and Eating Behaviour

A consensual qualitative study on the conflict of “escape the corset” within the group of Korean feminist women in their 20s

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