The Realities of Body Image

Janelli, Linda M.

doi:10.3928/0098-9134-19861001-07

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“…In general, findings suggesting a positive correlation between body appreciation and age appear more in line with the gerontology literature. Indeed, the decreased importance of appearance in favor of health and functionality (Baker&Gringart,2009;Deeny&Kirk-Smith,2000;Janelli, 1986;Reboussin et al, 2000), as well as women's diminished tendency to consider their looks as central to their overall selfworth as they grow older (Tiggemann & Lacey, 2009), are all indicators of a positive, rather than negative, shift in women's relationship to their body with age.…”

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Appearance Dissatisfaction, Body Appreciation, and Sexual Health in Women Across Adulthood

Robbins

Reissing

2017

Arch Sex Behav

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Risk and protective factors are equally important to the promotion of sexual health. Yet, in body image and sexuality research, most of the focus has been placed on the deleterious effects of appearance dissatisfaction and body mass index (BMI) at the expense of more adaptive dimensions. Furthermore, although age can affect appearance and sexual function, little is known regarding the experience of older women. Therefore, this study was aimed at comparing how positive body image (operationalized as body appreciation) and negative body image (operationalized as appearance dissatisfaction) each contribute to indicators of sexual health when controlling for BMI in a sample of age-varied women. Cross-sectional data were collected online from 215 heterosexual women aged 18-88 years. Results showed that body appreciation was a unique predictor of sexual function, satisfaction, and distress, above and beyond the effect of BMI and appearance dissatisfaction. Body appreciation was not found to fluctuate with age. Further, body appreciation moderated the relationship between age and sexual satisfaction, but not sexual distress. Post hoc analyses showed that high body appreciation may serve as a buffer against age-related changes in sexual satisfaction only in women with clinically significant sexual function difficulties. Increasing body appreciation may be a promising clinical intervention in the treatment of sexual problems in older adult women.

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Appearance Dissatisfaction, Body Appreciation, and Sexual Health in Women Across Adulthood

Robbins

Reissing

2017

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“…Previous research has suggested a number of factors that may influence the psychological outcome of disfiguring injury. People have different social influences at different ages (Janelli 1986) and women may be more sensitive than men in terms of psychological difficulty following disfigurement (Anderson & Maksud 1994, Newell 2000. The general health literature suggests that those at a lower socio-economic level are more affected by their health status (Marmot et al 1991), and it has also been found that the unemployed are at greater risk of developing psychological distress following acute injury (Joy et al 2000).…”

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Anxiety and self‐consciousness in patients with minor facial lacerations

Tebble¹,

Thomas²,

Price³

2004

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Body image is the way our body appears to ourselves as a mental image (Janelli, 1986). Body image, like self-esteem, is often used interchangeably with self-concept, but does not have the same meaning.…”

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Analysis of a Human Phenomenon: Self‐Concept

LeMone

1991

International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classificati

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This analysis of self‐concept includes an examination of definitions, historical perspectives, theoretical basis, and closely related terms. Antecedents, consequences, defining attributes, and a definition were formulated based on the analysis. The purpose of the analysis was to provide support for the use of the label “self‐concept”as a broad category that encompasses the self‐esteem, identity, and body‐image nursing diagnoses within Taxonomy I. This classification could allow the use of a broad diagnostic label to better describe conditions that necessitate nursing care. It may also further explain the relationships between and among those diagnoses that describe human responses to disturbance of any component of the self‐concept.

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The Realities of Body Image

Abstract: The older individual may have to make more adaptations to altered body image, especially in light of the American culture's emphasis on youth, beauty, and wholeness.

Cited by 30 publications

References 13 publications

Appearance Dissatisfaction, Body Appreciation, and Sexual Health in Women Across Adulthood

Appearance Dissatisfaction, Body Appreciation, and Sexual Health in Women Across Adulthood

Anxiety and self‐consciousness in patients with minor facial lacerations

Analysis of a Human Phenomenon: Self‐Concept

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