TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoffmann, Svenja
A1  - Warschburger, Petra
T1  - Prospective relations among internalization of beauty ideals, body image concerns, and body change behaviors
BT  - Considering thinness and muscularity
JF  - Body image : an international journal of research
N2  - Common models propose that the internalization of societal beauty ideals influences disordered eating behaviors and muscularity-oriented behaviors via body image concerns. However, previous studies addressing these pathways have been mainly cross-sectional and primarily included female samples. We investigated these pathways prospectively in male and female adolescents and young adults, examining two pathways: a ‘weight/shape pathway,’ linking thin-ideal internalization, weight/shape concern, and restrained eating, and a ‘muscularity pathway,’ linking athletic-ideal internalization, muscularity concern, and muscularity-oriented behavior. Across three time points, 973 participants from the German general population were assessed. Although the hypothesized pathways could not be supported in their complete temporal sequence, several hypothesized pathways occurred across two time points. Among others, weight/shape concern predicted restrained eating and the athletic ideal played a prominent role in the prediction of muscularity-oriented behavior in both genders.
KW  - Weight/shape concern
KW  - Muscularity concern
KW  - Internalization
KW  - Restrained eating
KW  - Muscularity-oriented behavior
KW  - Prospective path analysis
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2019.01.011
SN  - 1740-1445
SN  - 1873-6807
VL  - 28
SP  - 159
EP  - 167
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -