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Mad world-building
Published in Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones, Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, 2022
As OCD is linked to eating disorders and body dysmorphophobia, issues of body image are often important, and the distortion of self-image is common. Ideas of contamination by dirt, disease, toxins, ideas, or spiritual entities are also frequent, so the boundaries of the body become unclear. The visual-verbal medium of comics is ideal for representing such perceptual vexations, demonstrating how intricately mental states are bound up with lived bodily experience and an embodied sense of self (Koch 2016). Emanations may project from the body. In Binky Brown, for example, our protagonist senses invisible “pecker rays” that emerge from his penis and from all elongated appendages. Like powerful lasers, they project for an infinite distance, contaminating any religious icons that they hit with sacrilegious sexual vibes. Binky has to keep not only his mind in constant check, blocking out sinful thoughts as they arise with the repeated chant “Noyatin” (not a sin) but also his bodily alignments and orientation.
Lifestyle Medicine in the Care of Adolescent Girls
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
Neeta B. Agarwal, Michelle Dalal
Societal and peer influences can impact perception of one’s own body and can lead to positive or negative self-image, which can create patterns of disordered eating, leading to anorexia, bulimia, restrictive eating patterns, or body dysmorphic disorder.5
STRIVE Principles
Published in James Crossley, Functional Exercise and Rehabilitation, 2021
Self-image is an important aspect of a person’s belief system. Self-image is how we perceive ourselves, our individual tendencies and proclivities. Self-image can have a powerful impact on behavior. If you consider yourself to have a fear of heights or poor balance, this could have a powerful impact on your performance crossing the shaky rope bridge, for example. Self-image also distorts perception, as the subconscious strives to affirm your beliefs, assumptions and expectations. This is why people can wake up, look in the mirror and see two totally different body shapes from one morning to the next. Self-image has a powerful impact on how we perceive body shape.
Common resilience factors among healthy individuals exposed to chronic adversity: a systematic review
Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2023
Marie Nordström, Peter Carlsson, Dan Ericson, Anders Hedenbjörk-Lager, Gunnel Hänsel Petersson
Six of the included studies have investigated self-image in relation to health status. Caregivers being satisfied with their body image were associated with healthy weight status in the family (OR 0.51, p<.05) [57]. There was an association between body weight status in adults and level of self-concept [58] as well as self-reported body silhouette size (OR 2.78, p=.02) [47]. Self-classified BMI category or feeling at ideal body weight was not associated with body weight status [47]. Selecting a smaller ideal body figure was a health protective factor in girls (OR 6.71, p<.05) but not in boys [55]. The perception of discrimination was not significantly associated with health outcomes [52]. Excellent or very good self-rated health was associated with lower BMI (OR 0.93, p<.000) [54].
The experience of upper-limb dysfunction after stroke: a phenomenological study
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Judy Purton, Julius Sim, Susan M. Hunter
The presentation and appearance of the body are strongly related to self-image and the way in which the self is presented to others [24]. The findings indicated two issues that affected self-image. Firstly, because of their upper-limb dysfunction, participants were unable to present or adorn their body in their preferred way. Manipulating fastenings, such as buttons, zips and laces, and pulling on closer-fitting garments, such as socks and tights, require bimanual dexterity. Consequently, a number of participants had made changes to the type of clothing they wore to make it easier to dress independently or for carers to assist, often wearing looser-fitting garments with fewer fastenings. Although this was very practical, it often meant that their preferred style of dressing was no longer an option, and this persisted for many throughout the 18-month period of the study.
Beauty stereotypes as a form of violence in Spanish context: A mixed-method model
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2021
África Ruiz-Carot, Alicia Conesa-Agüera, Rocío Juliá-Sanchis, Pilar Almansa-Martínez, Ismael Jiménez-Ruiz
The subjective construction of body image based on social norms, which are supported by sex, gender, body image and representation, appears to trigger a diverse range of responses to society in terms of the development of alterations to one’s body image (Zuvirie Hernández & Rodríguez Ortiz, 2011; Vaquero-Cristóbal, Alacid, Muyor, & López-Miñarro, 2013). Such alterations to one’s self-image can produce an increase in bad mood, distress, physical dissatisfaction, depression and low self-esteem or the appearance of body dysmorphic and eating disorders (Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2004). This problem can be magnified as a result of pressure exerted by the commercialization of the beauty concept, which can be considered a form of esthetic or symbolic violence (Valera, 2008). This type of violence affects women particularly (Toro, 1996). However, since the 1990s, body dissatisfaction as a response to beauty ideals and hegemonic masculinity has increased in men (Toro-Alfonso, Walters-Pacheco, & Sánchez Cardona, 2012; Amaya Hernández, Alvarez Rayón, & Mancilla Díaz, 2010).