Body image and adolescence: A behavioral impairment model.
Adolescence is a period marked by important physical and social changes that can lead to a negative body image. The purpose of this study was to find a model enabling the appearance of behavioral impairment related to body image (restrictions, avoidance, and checking) to be predicted by body image attitudes (concern or Appearance Orientation, and dissatisfaction or Appearance Evaluation), Gender, emotional symptomatology, self-consciousness, ideas of reference (IR) and age. A total of 661 participants (67.47% girls) with an average age of 17.14 years (SD=2.34) filled in the GHQ-28, SCS on self-consciousness, REF referential thinking scale, MBSRQ (AO and AE), and BIAQ. A partial mediation model was found for IR, age and depressive symptomatology between dissatisfaction and concern about body image and Gender, to behavioral impairment related to body image. The results found suggest that age, depressive symptomatology, and IR may be mediator variables in the relationship between dissatisfaction and concern about body image, on body image behavioral impairment. This relationship implies a severity to be considered in intervention and monitoring of body image behavioral impairments in adolescents.
['Senín-Calderón|Cristina|C|', 'Rodríguez-Testal|Juan F|JF|', 'Perona-Garcelán|Salvador|S|', 'Perpiñá|Conxa|C|']
D000293:Adolescent D000294:Adolescent Behavior D001290:Attitude D001828:Body Image D005260:Female D006801:Humans D008297:Male D001523:Mental Disorders D008960:Models, Psychological D010549:Personal Satisfaction
Adolescents Ideas of references Body image concern Body image evaluation Depressive symptoms Psychopathological risk