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EveryBODY Should Succeed: The Relationship Amongst Students’ Body Appreciation, Academic Interference, and Achievement Emotions
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Despite the continuously narrowing body ideals and corresponding body dissatisfaction in young adults today, limited attention has been given to examining the impacts of students’ body image in their school environment. Body preoccupations, such as a fixation on appearance, food, and exercise,...
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Fall 2024
Despite progress in understanding body image's complexity and gender diversity, existing research often overlooks or inadequately addresses the experiences of nonbinary individuals. Traditional body image measurement and research studies typically fail to accommodate nonbinary identities at all,...
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The Body as Information: An Emergent Theory of Social Positioning and Information Behaviours in a Virtual Diet Community
DownloadFall 2021
The intersection of diet culture with the rise of online communities has led to the rapid growth of virtual diet communities, including the LoseIt community on Reddit. Using a conceptual framework of information behaviours in virtual communities and social positioning theory, this project studied...