Body Image
MIND MAP/BODY IMAGE
It is part of human nature to have feelings about how we look. However, how we view our bodies whether negative or positive, is all influenced by society and the culture that surrounds us. As well, interpersonal relationships and the physical changes that can occur over a lifetime both positive and negative, influences body image.
Body Image can significantly influence a person's mental health (Medscape Psychiatry, 2010). According to the article by (Davison & McCabe, 2005) People who possess a negative body image are at increased risk for low self-esteem, depression, and impaired social and sexual functioning. Furthermore, body image dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder symptomatology, especially in females, are strongly linked (Davison & McCabe, 2005).
Wysong and Sloam (2010) states that certain personality traits have been identified that may contribute to positive and negative body image. Individuals with positive body image tend to appreciate their own unique beauty and define beauty in wider terms Wysong and Sloam (2010). And unlike individuals with negative image, positive image individuals selectively filter information they receive through the media or the commentary of others about their appearance. In turn, studies on body image have found that negative body images individuals tend to be perfectionists and impressionable. They are easily influenced by the opinions, beliefs, and thoughts of others and are very concerned with how others perceive them. They also tend to compare their bodies to the bodies of others and those of unrealistic images portrayed by the media. Consequently these views may lead to a development of an eating disorder.
Dissatisfaction with one’s physical appearance is viewed as an essential feature of eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorder). Many adolescent girls and boys go to great lengths to achieve these unrealistic standards of body image. Eating disorders have become a
It is part of human nature to have feelings about how we look. However, how we view our bodies whether negative or positive, is all influenced by society and the culture that surrounds us. As well, interpersonal relationships and the physical changes that can occur over a lifetime both positive and negative, influences body image.
Body Image can significantly influence a person's mental health (Medscape Psychiatry, 2010). According to the article by (Davison & McCabe, 2005) People who possess a negative body image are at increased risk for low self-esteem, depression, and impaired social and sexual functioning. Furthermore, body image dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder symptomatology, especially in females, are strongly linked (Davison & McCabe, 2005).
Wysong and Sloam (2010) states that certain personality traits have been identified that may contribute to positive and negative body image. Individuals with positive body image tend to appreciate their own unique beauty and define beauty in wider terms Wysong and Sloam (2010). And unlike individuals with negative image, positive image individuals selectively filter information they receive through the media or the commentary of others about their appearance. In turn, studies on body image have found that negative body images individuals tend to be perfectionists and impressionable. They are easily influenced by the opinions, beliefs, and thoughts of others and are very concerned with how others perceive them. They also tend to compare their bodies to the bodies of others and those of unrealistic images portrayed by the media. Consequently these views may lead to a development of an eating disorder.
Dissatisfaction with one’s physical appearance is viewed as an essential feature of eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorder). Many adolescent girls and boys go to great lengths to achieve these unrealistic standards of body image. Eating disorders have become a