Boost Your Body: Self-Improvement Magazine Messages Increase Body Satisfaction in Young Adults
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DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1113482
Abstract: ABSTRACT The verbal messages that contextualize exposure to idealized body imagery may moderate media users’ body satisfaction. Such contextualizing verbal messages often take the form of social comparison motives in fashion magazines, while body dissatisfaction… read more here.
Keywords: improvement; comparison motives; body satisfaction; social comparison ... See more keywords