Body Image

Article	Citations
Yoga and nonsuicidal self-injury: Mediational effects of self-compassion and body appreciation	145
Prospective relationships between skin color satisfaction, body satisfaction, and binge eating in Black girls	100
State versus trait weight, shape, and eating concerns: Disentangling influence on eating behaviors among sexual minority women	99
An exploratory examination of internalized weight stigma in a sample living with food insecurity	79
Compliance with COVID-19 safety measures: A test of an objectification theory model	66
Self-objectification and sexual satisfaction: A preregistered test of the replicability and robustness of Calogero & Thompson (2009) in a sample of U.S. women	54
Buffering anti-fat attitudes using contact: The roles of contact quantity, duration, favorability, and intergroup anxiety	54
The impact of completing body image assessments on adolescents’ body image and engagement in body change strategies: Harmful or harmless?	54
Do media portrayals and social consensus information impact anti-fat attitudes and support for anti-weight discrimination laws and policies?	51
Editorial Board	48
Psychometric properties of a Bahasa Malaysia (Malay) translation of the Body and Appearance Self-Conscious Emotions Scale (BASES): An assessment using exploratory structural equation modelling	47
Validation of the Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale with Chinese adolescents and young adults	46
The female athletic ideal — Friend or foe? Fit, thin, and athletic body ideals and their associations with women’s body image	46
Is it safe? Exploring positive and negative outcome changes following a web-based intervention for adolescents distressed by a visible difference (YP Face IT)	45
"You Can't Be Too Skinny. You Can't Be Too Fat. I Don't Know What You Are Supposed To Be.": A qualitative focus group study exploring body image experiences of South Asian women in the UK	43
An examination of the factor structure of the Goldfarb Fear of Fat Scale in clinical and non-clinical samples of Polish women	43
A short-form drama series created for the digital media environment: A randomised controlled trial exploring effects on girls’ body satisfaction, acceptance of appearance diversity, and appearance-rel	42
Self-compassion and relationship status moderate the relationship between sexual minority status and body image concerns	42
Daily instability in body dissatisfaction in individuals with and without eating disorders	42
Primping, performing, and policing: Social media use and self-sexualization among U.S. White, Black, and Asian-American adolescent girls	40
Inhabiting the body: Exploring the link between embodiment and identity in community adolescents	40
Body talk on social networking sites and restrained eating among adolescents: A test of a multiple mediation model	39
“I’m coming out!”: An autoethnographic situation of sel/f/ves within queer fat chronically Ill identity	38
Weight gain attempts and substance use behaviors among adults across five countries	38
Evidence-based policy solutions to prevent eating disorders: Do disclaimer labels on fashion advertisements mitigate negative impact on adult women?	37

Development and validation of a measure of curvy ideals internalization	37
Portuguese version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 for Children (BAS-2C): Psychometric evaluation and measurement of invariance across sex	36
Identifying as fat: Examining weight discrimination and the rejection-identification model	36
Evaluating a school-based body image lesson in Indonesia: A randomised controlled trial	36
Flex Friday: A content analysis of men’s fitspiration on Instagram	35
Evaluating the impact of a brief Health at Every Size®-informed health promotion activity on body positivity and internalized weight-based oppression	35
The roles of negative affect and emotion differentiation in the experience of ‘feeling fat’ among undergraduate students: An ecological momentary assessment study	34
Psychometric validation of the Japanese version of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS)	33
Objectifying the body positive movement: The effects of sexualizing and digitally modifying body-positive images on Instagram	33
An examination of the unique contributions of body image and internalized weight bias to psychological well-being outcomes	33
Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of moderate and high engagement in muscle-building exercise among adolescents	33
The influence of pornography on heterosexual black men and women’s genital self-image & grooming	33
Adaptation and validation of the Body Image Life Disengagement Questionnaire (BILD-Q) for use in english among adolescents in urban India	33
Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans	32
Body image as a multidimensional concept: A systematic review of body image facets in eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia	31
Status, sexual capital, and intraminority body stigma in a size-diverse sample of gay men	30
Family members and peers’ negative and positive body talk: How they relate to adolescent girls’ body talk and eating disorder attitudes	30
Internalized weight stigma and the relationship between weight perception and negative body-related self-conscious emotions	29
Twinks, Jocks, and Bears, Oh My! Differing subcultural appearance identifications among gay men and their associated eating disorder psychopathology	29
Weight-related teasing is associated with body concerns, disordered eating, and health diagnoses in racially and ethnically diverse young men	28
Exploring the reciprocal associations between body appreciation, body image flexibility, and body acceptance by others in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Results from cross-lagged pan	27
Instagram Sexualization: When posts make you feel dissatisfied and wanting to change your body	26
The “Little Red Riding Hood effect:” Fitspiration is just as bad as thinspiration for women’s body satisfaction	26
A randomized control trial of Expand Your Horizon: An intervention for women with weight bias internalization	26
Multi-state modeling of thought-shape fusion using ecological momentary assessment	26
Bi-directional associations between depressive symptoms and eating disorder symptoms in early adolescence	25
The impact of critical comments from teammates on athletes’ eating and exercise psychopathology	25
Editorial Board	24
Exploring the associations between muscularity teasing and eating and body image disturbances in Chinese men and women	23
The Muscularity Bias Internalization Scale: Development and initial validation in Chinese adult men	23
Appearance Matters 10 preliminary programme	23
Body image and quality of life in women with breast cancer: Appreciating the body and its functionality	23
Change in body image flexibility and correspondence with outcomes in a digital early intervention for eating disorders based on acceptance and commitment therapy	23
Why do queer men experience negative body image? A narrative review and testable stigma model	23
An integrative model of weight stigma, body image, and physical activity in adolescents	22
The role of social context in own body size estimations: An investigation of the body schema	22
“Pretty hurts”: Acceptance of hegemonic feminine beauty ideals and reduced sexual well-being among Black women	22
Testing the associations between internalized cisgenderism, self-objectification, body shame, and mental health correlates in the framework of the pantheoretical model of dehumanization: A study in Ch	22
Women’s response to, awareness of, and interest in body functionality content on Instagram	22
Food insecurity is associated with muscle dysmorphia symptomatology among a sample of Canadian adolescents and young adults	21
Is this what a female yogi looks like? A content analysis of yoga images on Instagram	21
“Feeling fat,” disgust, guilt, and shame: Preliminary evaluation of a mediation model of binge-eating in adults with higher-weight bodies	21
A guide to exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) and bifactor-ESEM in body image research	20
Appearance-related safety behaviors predict symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder following internet-based treatment	20
#quarantine15: A content analysis of Instagram posts during COVID-19	20
Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating within the mother-daughter dyad: An actor-partner interdependence approach	20
Ethnic/racial and gender differences in body image disorders among a diverse sample of sexual minority U.S. adults	20
Does medium matter? Investigating the impact of viewing ideal image or short-form video content on young women’s body image, mood, and self-objectification	20
Disclosing the obvious: Psychosocial implications of (not) explaining facial differences	20
“Eat clean, train mean, get lean”: Body image and health behaviours of women who engage with fitspiration and clean eating imagery on Instagram	20

Visualizing Emotional Arousal within the Context of Body Size Evaluation: A Pilot Study of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials in Women with Anorexia Nervosa and Healthy Controls.	19
The associations between photo-editing and body concerns among females: A systematic review	19
Developing a definition of body neutrality and strategies for an intervention	19
Positive self-beliefs mediate the association between body appreciation and positive mental health	19
A prospective examination of relationships between social media use and body dissatisfaction in a representative sample of adults	19
Body dissatisfaction in midlife women: The applicability of the tripartite influence model	19
Body surveillance and affective judgments of physical activity in daily life	18
The body satisfaction and psychological well-being of retired women athletes: A long-term qualitative analysis of bodies in motion	18
Self-compassion and dissonance-based interventions for body image distress in young adult women	18
The association between problematic pornography use and eating disorder symptoms among heterosexual and sexual minority men	18
Comparing and self-objectifying: The effect of sexualized imagery posted by Instagram Influencers on women’s body image	18
Differentiating contributions of self-objectification and self-sexualization to young women’s sexual agency	18
Adolescents’ selfie-activities and idealized online self-presentation: An application of the sociocultural model	17
Reducing social anxiety in adolescents distressed by a visible difference: Results from a randomised control trial of a web-based intervention	17
Developing a model linking self-reported nature exposure and positive body image: A study protocol for the body image in nature survey (BINS)	17
Associations between adolescents’ pornography consumption and self-objectification, body comparison, and body shame	17
Does body appreciation predict decreases in eating pathology via intuitive eating? A longitudinal mediation analysis	17
Gender compatibility and drive for muscularity among adolescent boys: Examining the indirect effect of emotion regulation difficulties	17
Longitudinal relationships between physical activity, body appreciation, and proactive coping in college students: A cross-lagged panel model	16
An exploration of having social media influencers deliver a first-line digital intervention to improve body image among adolescent girls: A qualitative study	16
Corrigendum to “Does TikTok contribute to eating disorders? A comparison of the TikTok algorithms belonging to individuals with eating disorders versus healthy controls” [Body Image 51 (2024) 101807]	16
Muscularity bias internalization moderates the associations of muscularity dissatisfaction with muscularity-oriented disordered eating and psychosocial well-being in men but not women	16
The relation between body dysmorphic disorder symptoms and photo-based behaviors: is body appreciation a protective factor?	16
State affect and body image effects of body positive social media content within a female chronic illness sample	16
Early appearance concerns after burns: Investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self-compassion	16
Exposure to simulated nature promotes positive body image irrespective of the presentation modality: A comparison of images, 2-dimensional film, and 360° immersive film	16
Self-objectification in Chinese pregnant women: The mixed role of functionality appreciation	16
Corrigendum to “Body talk and body dissatisfaction in Japanese university students: Longitudinal study using the Japanese Body Talk Scale” [Body Image 51 (2024) 101740]	15
Psychometric properties of a Romanian translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS)	15
The effects of body-positive Instagram posts on body image in adult women	15
Muscle dysmorphia symptomatology among a national sample of Canadian adolescents and young adults	15
Digital body image interventions for adult women: A meta-analytic review	15
Psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS) in adults from Colombia	15
Can realistic dolls protect body satisfaction in young girls?	15
Understanding the relationship between body image and menopause in South Asian Canadian women	15
Is body dissatisfaction related to an attentional bias towards low weight bodies in non-clinical samples of women? A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Psychometric properties of a Dutch translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS) among adults in the Netherlands	15
Psychometric validation of the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory (MDDI) among U.S. transgender men	15
Integrating social media, body shame and psychological distress within the Elaborated Sociocultural Model	14
The body positive… or the body neutral? A content analysis of body positivity and body neutrality hashtagged videos on TikTok	14
Associations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adults	14
Body image explains differences in intuitive eating between men and women: Examining indirect effects across negative and positive body image	14
Cultural adaptation and validation of the Body Esteem Scale for Adults and Adolescents for use in English among adolescents in urban India	14
Body image profiles combining body shame, body appreciation and body mass index differentiate dietary restraint and exercise amount in women	14
Body-related self-conscious emotions and reasons for exercise: A latent class analysis	14
Validation of the Body Acceptance by Others Scale-2 (BAOS-2) and assessment of its associations with prospective changes in body image among young adults in China	14
#WhatIEatInADay: The effects of viewing food diary TikTok videos on young adults’ body image and intent to diet	14
Measuring weight- and shape-based social identity threat vulnerability in young adults	14
A systematic review of weight stigma and disordered eating cognitions and behaviors	14
Experimental evidence that activewear retail imagery elicits physiological, attentional and self-reported markers of body image threat in women	13
Understanding what drives adolescent social media behaviours: Informing approaches for interventions	13
Measurement invariance of two measures of positive body image among Hispanic/Latina undergraduate women	13
Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review	13
The impact of yoga on body image in adults: A systematic review of quantitative studies	13
Enhancing body image in motherhood: A randomised controlled trial of Expand Your Horizon among mothers of young children	13
The impact of body image on social cognition: Fear of negative evaluation mediates the relationship between body surveillance and interpersonal distance in women	13
Translation and psychometric properties of an Italian version of the Body Acceptance by Others Scale-2 (BAOS-2)	13
Critical measurement issues in the assessment of social media influence on body image	13
Embodying loving kindness: Examining self-compassionate writing tasks and body satisfaction among transgender and non-binary people	13
Beach body ready? Shredding for summer? A first look at “seasonal body image”	12
Body image and depression in endometriosis: Examining self-esteem and rumination as mediators	12
A randomized controlled trial of a brief self-compassion intervention designed to improve the body image of sexual minority men	12
Examining the individual and relational impacts of varying responses to negative body talk within college women’s female friendships	12
Prospective examination of psychological risk and maintenance factors for body image distress after mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction	12
A systematic review of interventions aiming to promote positive body image in children and adolescents	12
The psychological effects of blind and open weighing in women with a high drive for thinness: A mixed method inquiry	12
Measuring positive breast experience: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Breast Appreciation Scale (BrAS)	12
Dissonance-based prevention of eating pathology in non-Western cultures: A randomized controlled trial of the Body Project among young Saudi adult women	12
“Intermission!” A short-term social media fast reduces self-objectification among pre-teen and teen dancers	12
#BodyPositive: A qualitative exploration of young people’s responses to body positive social media content	12
Body Positivity, but not for everyone: The role of model size in exposure effects on women’s mood, body satisfaction, and food choice	12
Announcement of 2020 Fisher award	12
Sexting with benefits? Exploration of sexting behaviours through the lens of protection motivation theory	12
Body appreciation predicts lower levels of orthorexia nervosa symptoms: Prospective findings	12
Beauty and the big business: A qualitative investigation of the development and implementation of the CVS Beauty Mark	11
Appearance Matters 10	11
Thin Ideal Internalization Assessment (THIINA): Development and Psychometric Validation of a New Measure of Female Body Image	11
Automatic pro-thin/anti-fat biases can develop without previous visual exposure to body shapes	11
Editorial Board	11
First do no harm: Measuring weight bias beliefs in preschool-age children	11

Sociocultural pressures and engagement with cosmetic products and procedures in adult women	11
Adaptive body image can be contagious: An examination of college women facing situational body image threats	11
“Are people thinking I'm a vector…because I’m fat?”: Cisgender experiences of body, eating, and identity during COVID-19	11
Do appearance comparisons mediate the effects of thinspiration and fitspiration on body dissatisfaction, happiness, and disordered eating urges in women’s daily lives?	11
‘I wish my body looked like theirs!’: How positive appearance comments on social media impact adolescents' body dissatisfaction	11
3D visualisation of psychometric estimates for the ideal male body	11
The whole is more than the sum of its parts: A qualitative investigation of body-dissatisfied college women’s experiences of relational body image	11
Additive and interactive associations among body appreciation, self-compassion, and gender in understanding college students’ health behaviors	11
Body image concerns across different sports and sporting levels: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Unraveling the meaning of weight misperception in a sample of college students: Unaware or body satisfied?	10
Pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction among men: The U.S. Body Project I	10
The effects of self-disclaimer Instagram captions on young women's mood and body image: The moderating effect of participants’ own photo manipulation practices	10
Individual differences in relational body image: Within-person variability predicts maladaptive trait body image	10
Demographic and sociocultural predictors of sexuality-related body image and sexual frequency: The U.S. Body Project I	10
#Bopo: Enhancing body image through body positive social media- evidence to date and research directions	10
The effect of physical appearance perfectionism and social comparison to thin-, slim-thick-, and fit-ideal Instagram imagery on young women’s body image	10
Demographic predictors of objectification theory and tripartite influence model constructs: The U.S. Body Project I	10
“We should educate the public that cosmetic procedures are as safe as normal medicine”: Understanding corporate social responsibility from the perspective of the cosmetic procedures industry	10
Evaluating change in body image concerns following a single session digital intervention	10
Support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies: Modelling the role of attitudes toward poverty alongside weight stigma, causal attributions about weight, and prejudice	10
Photo manipulation as a predictor of facial dissatisfaction and cosmetic procedure attitudes	10
#Take idealized bodies out of the picture: A scoping review of social media content aiming to protect and promote positive body image	9
Validation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 in cisgender, heterosexual and sexual and gender minority adolescents and sexuality-related correlates	9
Towards a better understanding of the social stigma of facial difference	9
Social comparison, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction among postpartum women	9
Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale among emerging adults	9
Disordered eating through the lens of positive psychology: The role of embodiment, self-esteem and identity coherence	9
‘Everybody’s Different: The Appearance Game’. A randomised controlled trial evaluating an appearance-related board game intervention with children aged 9–11 years	9
The body image “problem” on social media: Novel directions for the field	9
Body acceptance by others: Refinement of the construct, and development and psychometric evaluation of a revised measure – The Body Acceptance by Others Scale-2	9
Are humorous or distractor images more effective than self-compassion messages for combatting the negative body image consequences of social media? An experimental test of possible micro-intervention	9
Translation and psychometric evaluation of the Experience of Embodiment Scale in a Swedish community sample of young women and men	9
TikTok on the clock but the #fitspo don’t stop: The impact of TikTok fitspiration videos on women’s body image concerns	9
The impact of a values affirmation intervention on body dissatisfaction and negative mood in women exposed to fitspiration	9
Social media, body image, and the question of causation: Meta-analyses of experimental and longitudinal evidence	9
Fat embodiment for resistance and healing from weight stigma	8
A qualitative exploration of positive body image experiences among nonbinary individuals	8
Love me Tinder: The effects of women’s lifetime dating app use on daily body dissatisfaction, disordered eating urges, and negative mood	8
A qualitative investigation of the phenomenology of muscle dysmorphia: Part 1	8
Translation and validation of an Italian version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2	8
Do the metrics matter? An experimental investigation of Instagram influencer effects on mood and body dissatisfaction	8
Impacts of dietary self-monitoring via MyFitnessPal to undergraduate women: A qualitative study	8
The effects of engaging in digital photo modifications and receiving favorable comments on women’s selfies shared on social media	8
Inconsistencies in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of internalized weight stigma: A potential way forward	8
Translation and validation of a Romanian version of the Breast Appreciation Scale (BrAS)	8
Digging into digital buffets: A systematic review of eating-related social media content and its relationship with body image and eating behaviours	8
Social anxiety moderates the relationship between body mass index and motivation to avoid exercise	8
Self-compassion, body satisfaction, and disordered eating symptoms in male collegiate athletes: A longitudinal analysis	8
Body image in women diagnosed with breast cancer: A grounded theory study	8
Social media, traditional media, and other body image influences and disordered eating and cosmetic procedures in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong	8
On liking how you look and feeling sexy: Quantifying the overlap between sexual desirability and body satisfaction in a sample of Australian Grindr users	8
Sample characteristics for quantitative analyses in Body Image: Issues of generalisability	8
Pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction among women: The U.S. Body Project I	8
Conformity to masculine norms, masculine discrepancy stress, and changes in muscle dysmorphia symptoms	8
How social media images of sexualized young women elicit appearance commentary from their peers and reinforce objectification	8
What a body can do: Rethinking body functionality through a feminist materialist disability lens	8
Is a female physical empowerment campaign effective in improving positive body image, motivation for physical activity, and physical activity behavior in young female adults? A two-study experimental	7
Self-compassion explains substantially more variance in eating disorder psychopathology and associated impairment than mindfulness	7
Feminist embodiment, body talk, and body image among mothers and daughters	7
Psychometric properties of an Italian translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS)	7
“Spring is the best time to lose weight”: Evidence that dieting is seasonal and reaches peak intensity during Spring	7
Editorial Board and Aims & Scopes	7
Social physical anxiety and eating disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Uncovering men’s stereotype content (warmth and competence) associated with a representative range of male body size categories	7
Psychometric properties and validation of the Phenomenological Body Shame Scale – Revised (PBSS-R)	7
A cognitive dissonance body image intervention ‘Free Being Me’ delivered by guide leaders to adolescent girl guides in India: A pilot and acceptability trial	7
Editorial Board	7
Protective filtering: A qualitative study on the cognitive strategies young women use to promote positive body image in the face of beauty-ideal imagery on Instagram	7
The Sociostructural-Intersectional Body Image (SIBI) framework: Understanding the impact of white supremacy in body image research and practice	7
Translation and validation of a Chinese version of the Appearance Schemas Inventory-Revised in Chinese adults	7
Exploration of parental consent for adolescent involvement in genital body image education research	7
Problematic muscularity-oriented behaviors: Overview, key gaps, and ideas for future research	7
Negative messages from parents and sisters and Latina college students’ body image shame	7
Promoting body positivity through stories: How protagonist body size and esteem influence readers’ self-concepts	6
Body dissatisfaction among ethnic subgroups of Latin women: An examination of acculturative stress and ethnic identity	6
Editorial Board	6
Investigating the role of perceived ingroup and outgroup colourism on body image and wellbeing among Black, Asian, and other racialised/ethnic minority groups living in the UK	6
The Body and Appearance Self-Conscious Emotions Scale (BASES): A comprehensive examination of its factorial validity, with recommendations for researchers	6
Psychometric properties of the Perceived Benefits of Thinness Scale in college-aged women	6
Women’s self-estimates of body size are more accurate and precise when made with three-quarter view than front-view stimuli	6
Measurement invariance of body image measures by age, gender, sexual orientation, race, weight status, and age: The U.S. Body Project I	6
Is poor global processing a transdiagnostic feature of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Anorexia Nervosa? A meta-analysis	6
The need for precision research on muscle dysmorphia: Special issue call for research on clinically diagnosed samples	6
Look me in the eyes! A pre-registered eye-tracking study investigating visual attention and affective reactions to faces with a visible difference	6
Body image flexibility and exercise motivation: A two-sample replication study	6
“My body, my choice”: A qualitative study of women’s mastectomy with flat closure experiences	6
The Seymour Fisher annual award	6
Fat talk is predicted by body dissatisfaction and social comparison with no interaction effect: Evidence from two replication studies	6
Body weight contingent self-worth predicts depression in adolescent girls: The roles of self-esteem instability and interpersonal sexual objectification	6
The impact of different responses to negative body talk on body satisfaction, shame, and future negative body talk likelihood: A UK sample	6
Bidirectional relationships between intuitive eating and shape and weight overvaluation, dissatisfaction, preoccupation, and fear of weight gain: A prospective study	6
Further evaluation of the psychometric properties of the German version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2): Cross-validation, measurement invariance, and population-based norms	6
Testing a self-compassion micro-intervention before appearance-based social media use: Implications for body image	6
A comic-based body image intervention for adolescents in semi-rural Indian schools: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial	6
Does seeking the brawns impact the brain?: An investigation of muscularity-oriented disordered behaviors and cognitive function	6