Ideation of Body Image and its Relevance to Health
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Globalization and urbanization have greatly affected one's life style, perception, rate of acceptanceas well as eating habits. In the present era human beings have many concerns about theirdevelopment, about size and shape of body, skin condition, attractiveness and approval by theirfriends. Body image is a multifaceted psychological construct that includes subjective attitudinaland perceptual experiences about one‟s body, particularly its appearance. The impact ofglobalization on body image and health are simultaneously positive and negative varyingaccording to factors such as geographical location, gender, age, ethnic origin, education level, andsocioeconomic status. In childhood, the influential beings are caretakers and with increasing agesocial factors and peers have greater influence. Media plays profound role on body image. Thereare evidences to support that body image concerns and dissatisfaction are serious problem and itis linked to nutritional status. Besides several primary prevention strategies psychotherapeutic,exercise and health based educational interventions are needed to overcome negative body image.There is an urgent need to move from traditional research to translational research and finally totransformative research transformative research in context of body image.
Author: Chandni Mishra
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3016244530