Thesis (B.A. (Hons.)) - University of Queensland, 2005. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2006. / "A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-32) and appendices.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Memphis, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

The role of common metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy was examined in a 35 min brief online workshop targeted at body image dissatisfaction. Participants consisted of 24 graduate level students who were randomly assigned to either the, "ACT as Usual" or "ACT without Metaphors" treatment condition. The "ACT as Usual" treatment condition incorporated common ACT metaphors into the workshop while the "ACT without Metaphors" utilized alternative exercises and literal explanations. Both of the workshops covered all six core components of ACT and provided the same basic information. Results of the present study indicated that there was a significant difference between pretest and posttest scores for the AAQ-W for both groups and no significant differences between pre and post CFQ-13 and PASTAS scores. Further, results indicate the use of common ACT metaphors did not significantly influence participant's scores. Future research should examine the use of ACT metaphors in a variety of settings and situations in order to determine their utility.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-11-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:39:16Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 dezan_ff_me_rcla.pdf: 979105 bytes, checksum: ab117d20b7f2b6ea0714e073975ef622 (MD5) / A abordagem do tema corpo é de extrema relevância, em especial quando passamos a estudar enfoques especiais nos assuntos relacionados à vigorexia, e não sem efeito, direcioná-la ao público masculino, apesar deste distúrbio de imagem não se restringir somente aos homens. A tecnologia se faz presente no cotidiano das pessoas, em suas mais variadas formas, quer seja através da mídia, das técnicas de intervenção cirúrgicas, nos produtos de beleza, aparelhos para ginástica, etc., não poderíamos deixar de ressaltar o fato de que o corpo passa a ser objeto de desejos e atenções que remetem a si próprio, seu destino e construção no tocante ao que pode ou não ser valorizado na cultura onde este se inseriu. A busca pelo corpo perfeito tem o efeito de produzir discursos duplos que se justificam por relacionar as atividades físicas como promotoras de boa saúde e veículo de credibilidade social, bem como ser objeto de desejo, mas não deixam claro, ou pelo menos não fazem questão de revelar, quais os processos pelos quais passam os que já adquiriram o tão desejado corpo perfeito, ficando somente sua imagem como fontes de inspiração e desejo. Participaram deste estudo 13 indivíduos do sexo masculino, maiores de 18 anos e usuários da rede social virtual Orkut. Para desenvolver o estudo utilizamo-nos da submissão de questionários online, bem como entrevistas via comunicação síncrona, em sua interface de videochamada (site MSN), quando necessário, na tentativa de minimizar a avaliação de perfis “fakes”. Não foram analisadas questões socioeconômicas. O estudo procurou estabelecer conexões entre o quadro corporal atual, com inúmeras exigências e questões a se valorizar quando pensamos no corpo e suas representações. Atualmente o corpo, por si só, não representa algo socialmente... / Approaches about body is extremely important, with a special focus on issues related to vigorexy, and not without effect, direct it to the male audience, considering that this image disturbance is not restricted to men. The technology is present in daily life, in its various forms, whether through the media, the techniques of surgical intervention in beauty products, appliances for gymnastics, etc.. We could not fail to emphasize the fact that the body becomes the object of desire and attention that refer to itself, its destination and construction as to what may or may not be valued in the culture where it is inserted. The search for the perfect body has the effect of producing the double standards that are justified by relating physical activity as promoters of good health and vehicle of social credibility, as well as being an object of desire, but not clear, or at least make a point of reveal, what are the processes by which those who have already acquired the coveted perfect body, leaving only its image as a source of inspirations and desires. The study included 13 males, aged 18 years and users of social networking site Orkut. To develop the study, we use the online submission of questionnaires and interviews via synchronous communication, video calling in its interface (website MSN), when necessary, in order to minimize the assessment of profiles fakes”. Socioeconomic issues were not analyzed. The study sought to establish connections between the current body frame, with numerous requirements and issues to appreciate when we consider the body and its representations. Currently the body, by itself, does not represent something socially valued, unless it is permeated by numerous care that valued characteristic of a body. Based on the analysis and discussion of the data showed that the image disorders are present in large... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Antonieta Keiko Kakuda Shimo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T06:12:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cairolli_PaolaBombassaro_M.pdf: 4335607 bytes, checksum: 0d07bfd5c96cf5defc684a70365957ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A gestação é um período de rápidas mudanças e adaptações, tanto corporais quanto emocionais. Ganho de peso, aumento das mamas, quadris e abdômen são algumas das mudanças corporais que acompanharão a mulher durante a gestação. Esse corpo em adaptação encontra na sociedade a cobrança da "perfeição", do ideal de beleza e boa forma. A imagem corporal é a representação mental do nosso corpo. Ela está em constante mutação, podendo ser alterada por informações, experiências sociais, emocionais e fisiológicas que o indivíduo recolhe no decorrer da vida. É por meio do corpo que interagimos com o mundo, é a partir dele que desenvolvemos a nossa identidade. A gestante vê o seu corpo mudando rapidamente e fugindo do que ela estabeleceu como sua identidade. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é avaliar a imagem corporal e a satisfação corporal de gestantes por meio da Escala de Medida em Imagem Corporal e um questionário sócio- demográfico e saber como esta escala se comporta na população gestante. O estudo se caracteriza como descritivo-exploratório. A amostra é composta por 93 gestantes do município de Vinhedo - SP que realizaram seus pré-natais das Unidades Básicas de Saúde e responderam aos questionários. Os escores totais e dos componentes da imagem corporal e a satisfação corporal (que é o equilíbrio entre os componentes da imagem corporal) foram analisados e relacionados aos dados sócio-demográficos como idade, IMC, entre outros. Tendo a escala se comportado de forma adequada para a população deste estudo, mostrando consistência interna muito boa (alfa de Cronbach = 0,912), obteve-se como resultado que a maioria das gestantes apresenta imagem corporal boa, sem alteração. Quando esta informação é relacionada aos dados sócio-demográficos, percebe-se relação significativa entre o peso corporal e a imagem corporal. Na avaliação da satisfação corporal, por sua vez, a maioria das gestantes (60,22%) estava insatisfeita. Esse resultado permite pensar que, quando se avalia os componentes da imagem corporal, eles podem se apresentar com escore elevado, mas não necessariamente em equilíbrio. Na associação com os dados sócio- demográficos, o peso corporal é, novamente, um fator de alteração na satisfação corporal das gestantes. Considerando os resultados obtidos, conclui-se que a avaliação da imagem corporal e da satisfação corporal, por meio de escalas como a deste estudo, devem ser de conhecimento dos profissionais que trabalham com gestantes e aplicadas nos programas de pré-natal para identificar, tratar e/ou prevenir alterações que possam comprometer o bem estar e a auto-estima das gestantes. Programas de apoio a gestante com atendimento psicológico e atividades físicas que permitam às mulheres conhecerem e identificarem seus corpos são úteis para manter a imagem corporal boa neste período / Abstract: Pregnancy is a short period of body and emotional changes and adaptations. Weight gain, increases in breast size, widening of hips and belly are some of the body changes that will happen to the woman during pregnancy. This body in change finds in society a call for "perfection", body ideals and good shape. Body image is the mental representation of our body. It is constantly changing, and might be modified by informations and social, emotional and physiological experiences that the individual collects during life. By the body we experience the world and based on it we develop our identity. The pregnant woman sees her body changing and becoming different from what she had established as her identity. The aim of this research is to evaluate pregnant women's body image and body satisfaction using the Body Image Rating Scale (Escala de Medida em Imagem Corporal) and a social-demographic questionnaire, and to know how this scale behaves in a pregnant woman group. This is a descriptive-exploratory research. The sample is composed of 93 pregnant women from Vinhedo - SP that made their prenatal appointments at the Basic Health Units in this city and answered the questionnaires. The body image total and components scores and the scores of body satisfaction (the balance of body image components) were analyzed and related to the social-demographic data such as age, BMI, and others. Since the scale behaved properly to the sample of this study, in which internal consistency was good (Cronbach's alpha = 0,912), the results showed that the majority of the pregnant women presents positive body image, without disturbances. When this information is related to social-demographic data, significant relation between body weight and body image is noticed. In the evaluation of body satisfaction, however, the majority of the pregnant women (60.22%) was dissatisfied. This result shows that, when the components of body image are assessed, they can have high scores, but not necessarily in balance. In association with social-demographic data, body weight is, again, a factor of disturbance in pregnant women's body satisfaction. In conclusion, considering the achieved results, body image and body satisfaction assessment, using scales like the one this research did, must be known by professionals who work with pregnancy and must be applied in prenatal programs to identify, treat and/or prevent disturbances that can compromise welfare and self-esteem of pregnant women. Supporting programs to pregnant women with psychological therapy and physical activities that allow women to know and to identify their bodies are useful to keep the positive body image during this period / Mestrado / Enfermagem e Trabalho / Mestre em Enfermagem

Partindo de uma hipótese inicial de que há na Literatura Infantojuvenil elementos (explícitos ou implícitos) que configuram representações do corpo desviante geradoras ou propiciadoras de cristalizações de estereótipos, denunciadoras de atitudes e preconceitos frente à diferença corporal e perpetuadoras de leituras maniqueístas e estigma, o presente trabalho buscou a analise da concretização desses elementos, através do estudo de características das 47 histórias eleitas, destinadas ao público infantil e juvenil, escritas por autores brasileiros e editadas entre 1971 e 1991, sendo que a ênfase da análise recaiu sob e atributos e ações das personagens corporalmente diferentes. Antes de chegar aos resultados, foi percorrido um caminho que, partindo das visões de corpo, transitou pela problemática do desvio, da diferença, da deficiência; pelo emaranhado conceitual de atitudes, preconceitos, estereótipos e estigma; pelo universo das significações, das anomalias, das monstruosidades, do grotesco; pelo território da Literatura e da Psicologia; pelas especificidades do gênero literário em pauta; pelos meandros metodológicos. As unidades de análise para pesquisa do corpus foram: o narrador, a trama, a narrativa e o tipo de discurso; a situação inicial da história; o universo constitucional das personagens; os tipos de deficiência e alteração corporal; as personagens no contexto dramático: características, ações e funções; a nomeação; os campos de atribuição dos fenômenos na etiologia e no desfecho. Foram também definidos três focos adicionais de interesse, voltados para as questões do \"olhar\" do outro, das \"perdas\" e dos \"desejos\". Conclui-se pela confirmação da hipótese inicial e distribui-se as reflexões finais em três grandes vertentes: etiologia da diferença (ênfase na culpabilização), status da personagem (vitima, herói, vilão) e desfecho (cura, exotismo, isolamento, morte). Vertentes essas pensadas como girando em torno de três eixos principais: histórias \"altamente\" preconceituosas, histórias \"denunciado as\" de preconceitos e histórias \"livres\" de preconceitos. / This study was based on the suppostiion that representations of the divergent body gener-ate and/or make possible the cristallization of stereotypes. These stereotypes reveal the existence of prejudices (among other attitudes) against corporeal differences and contribute to maintain stigma and manichaeistic interpretations of those differences. As a consequence of this supposition, it was assumed that it could be found, in the literature written fo child en and young people, elements, implicitly o explicitly argued, that were in acco dance with the kind of representation supposed. To investigate this empirical assumption, the present study analyzed the characteristics of 47 chosen stories, written by Brazilian authors, for child en and young people, and published from 1971 to 1991. The focuses of the analysis were the actions and the attributes of those characters whose bodies were divergent from the more usual one. A two-ply theoretical support for the analysis was sought. In one hand, it was based on the literature concerning the concepts of body. specially conside ing the issues of deviation, difference and disability. On the other hand the support was sought on the conceptual puzzle of attitudes, stereotypes and stigma. Across the criticai reading of this literature, \"the long and winding road\" travelled included the universe of meanings, anomalias, monstrosities and the grothesque appearence. It was necessary to specificate the literary genre studied and the methodological approach best fitted to the pursued goals. The units employed to analyze the corpus were the starting point of the story; the narrator; the narrativa structure; the nar ation itself and the kind of speech used; the character\'s constitutional universe; the kinds of disability and/o co poreal alteration. The characters were also analyzed in the d amatic context, considering their cha acteristics, actions and functions. The fields of attribution of the occurrences were determined at the beginning (etiology) and at the ending of these occurences. Additionally, three other issues were investigated, which are the other person\'s look to the character whose body was different and the lesses and desires of this character.

A profusion of research has been dedicated to the effects of new media on body image. In an attempt to explain the inflation of eating disorders, several researchers have turned to the cultivation theory, postulating that increased interaction with these medias will lead to internalizations of the messages they disseminate. The over presence of extremely thin models and actresses can create a new reality for media users, who begin to equate thinness with beauty, power, femininity and happiness. While an abundance of research has delved into the impact of this thin ideal through television and magazines, the Internet as a medium is relatively new territory. Untrodden further is the field of social media, and particularly Instagram. The aim of this study was to determine the potential of cultivation theory via Instagram and its users.

The thesis dedicated to the issue of body image in the context of marketing communication emphasizing female body imaging in advertising. The aim of Master's thesis is to identify differences in the perception of beauty between the German and Czechoslovak culture. The theoretical part is intended to explain the body image issues, including historical development. Furthermore points out the influence of mass media on women's physical self-concept. The practical part deals with content analysis of selected Czech and German magazines and identification of differences in the perception of beauty between these cultures based on frequency of body image components. The last section contains output and evaluation of a questionnaire survey conducted among members of the two cultures. The aim is to detect differences in the perception of body image and influence of media.

To examine family context in relation to body image, weight concerns, and weight control behaviors in preadolescent African American girls. Methods: Cross-sectional baseline data were analyzed from 303 African American girls 8 to 10 years old and a caregiver in the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies Phase 2(GEMS), an obesity prevention intervention trial. Results: Fruit, juice, and vegetable accessibility and family support for healthy eating and physical activity were significantly related to girls' body image and weight control behaviors. Conclusions: A comprehensive understanding of family factors may improve future programs aimed at preadolescent girls.