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Mother/Daughter Positive Body Image Intervention: Jessica Hocking
Mother/Daughter Positive Body Image Intervention: Jessica Hocking
Mother/Daughter Positive Body Image Intervention: Jessica Hocking
Jessica Hocking
WHAT IS POSITIVE BODY IMAGE?
➤ Not just a lack of body dissatisfaction
➤ Multiple domains (Wood-Barcalow, Tylka; Augustus-Horvath
2010):
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➤ Girls tend to have poorer body image than boys (e.g., Frisén and
Holmqvist, 2010a).
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➤ Peer influences
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➤ eating “in response to internal cues and not in response to difficult emotions or distress. Those
who eat intuitively are not preoccupied with dieting and food, do not categorize food as
“forbidden,” and food choices are a reflection of preferred taste and a desire to assist the body’s
functioning” (Andrew, Tiggeman, & Clark, 2015, p. 209).
➤ Mental Health
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➤ Body Image
➤ Media Literacy
➤ Lifestyle
➤ Results: Girls in the treatment group reported…
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➤ Body Dissatisfaction
➤ Thin Ideal Internalization
➤ 31 mother-daughter dyads
➤ Daughters ages 12-14
➤ Results:
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➤ Cultural factors
➤ Peer teasing
➤ Mothers can use their influence to steer daughters toward a
positive body image
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➤ Body Image
➤ Media Literacy
➤ Lifestyle
➤ Mom/daughter relationship
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➤ weight talk
➤ 5 mechanisms from Maor & Cwikel article (filtering, positivity,
discussion, positive reinforcement, and emphasizing dangers
of eating disorders)
STUDY PROPOSAL
➤ Participants
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➤ Self-report
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➤ Possible mediators
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(Rosenburg, 1965)
➤ Mom/Daughter Weight Talk
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Repeated measures ANOVA (ANCOVA?)
DISCUSSION
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Should I measure BMI at each time point?