Body change strategies in children: relationship to age and gender.
Eat Behav
; 8(3): 357-63, 2007 Aug.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17606233
ABSTRACT
The "Body Image and Body Change Inventory Questionnaire" was administered to 958 students, aged 8.00-13.99 years, to determine the types of strategies used by children to accomplish changes in body size/shape. Each individual strategy score was compared for each gender and with respect to age. The girls' score for food restrictive practices was significantly higher than for other body change strategies. For the boys, the score for the use of food and exercise strategies to increase muscle size was significantly higher than all other practices except exercise strategies to increase body size. Both boys and girls reported the lowest scores for food and exercise strategies to increase body weight. The variance explained by age was small and not considered biologically significant. While the findings do not demonstrate a relationship between desire to change body size/shape and age, weight concerns should not be overlooked, as both genders seem concerned with keeping their body weight low. The different practices used by each gender demonstrate that different body image ideals hold for boys and girls.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Inventário de Personalidade
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Somatotipos
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Imagem Corporal
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Exercício Físico
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Tamanho Corporal
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Dieta Redutora
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eat Behav
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
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CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Austrália