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Medeiros de Morais MS, Macêdo SGGF, do Nascimento RA, Vieira MCA, Moreira MA, da Câmara SMA, Almeida MDG, Maciel ÁCC. Dissatisfaction with body image and weight gain in middle-aged women: A cross sectional study. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0290380. [PMID: 38206926 PMCID: PMC10783740 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between weight gain and body image perception in in middle-aged women. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 453 women. Body image was assessed using the Stunkard scale, in which women were classified as: satisfied or dissatisfied (general, thinness or obesity). The identification of possible factors associated with body image dissatisfaction was performed using binary logistic regression analysis. RESULTS The mean age was 55.7 (±9.6) years; 80.8% were classified as dissatisfied with body image. As for body composition, women satisfied with their body image had lower values of body fat and higher values of lean mass. In the logistic regression, for general dissatisfaction and obesity, the associated variables were BMI, education and physical activity. As for "dissatisfaction with thinness", only BMI was associated. CONCLUSION Thus, the prevalence of body image dissatisfaction is high in women and part of associated factors are linked to lifestyle behaviors.
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- Department of Federal University of Ceará, Physiotherapy Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
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Age-based entitlement: An ageist practice or a tool for combatting ageism? J Aging Stud 2023; 64:101108. [PMID: 36868620 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Researchers in gerontology have addressed the way age-based arrangements may communicate stereotypical and devaluing images of older people, thereby linking high age to frailty and dependence. The present article considers proposed reforms to the Swedish eldercare system designed to guarantee people over 85 the right to move into a nursing home regardless of their needs. The purpose of the article is to investigate older people's views on age-based entitlement in light of this proposal. What might the consequences of implementing the proposal be? Does it communicate devaluing images? Do the respondents consider it a case of ageism? The data consists of 11 peer group interviews with 34 older individuals. Bradshaw's taxonomy of needs was used to code and analyze data. Four positions on the proposed guarantee were identified: care should be arranged (1) according to needs, not age; (2) according to age as a proxy for needs; (3) according to age, as a right; and (4) according to age, to combat "fourth ageism", meaning ageism directed towards frail older persons, i.e. persons in the fourth age. The notion that such a guarantee might constitute ageism was dismissed as irrelevant, while difficulties in getting access to care were presented as the real discrimination. It is theorized that some forms of ageism posited as theoretically relevant may not be experienced as such by older people themselves.
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Lagacé M, Doucet A, Dangoisse P, Bergeron CD. The "Vulnerability" Discourse in Times of Covid-19: Between Abandonment and Protection of Canadian Francophone Older Adults. Front Public Health 2021; 9:662231. [PMID: 34540778 PMCID: PMC8446363 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.662231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly difficult for older Canadians who have experienced age discrimination. As the media can provide a powerful channel for conveying stereotypes, the current study aimed to explore how Canadian Francophone older adults and the aging process were depicted by the media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and to examine if and how the media discourse contributed to ageist attitudes and behaviors. A content analysis of two French Canadian media op-eds and comment pieces (n = 85) published over the course of the first wave of the pandemic was conducted. Findings reveal that the aging process was mainly associated with words of decline, loss, and vulnerability. More so, older people were quasi-absent if not silent in the media discourse. Older adults were positioned as people to fight for and not as people to fight along with in the face of the pandemic. The findings from this study enhance the understanding of theories and concepts of the Theory of Social Representations and the Stereotype Content Model while outlining the importance of providing older people with a voice and a place in the shaping of public discourse around aging. Results also illustrate the transversality and influence of ageism in this linguistic minority context.
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- Martine Lagacé
- Department of Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Aging, Seniors and Dementia, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Ng R. Societal Age Stereotypes in the U.S. and U.K. from a Media Database of 1.1 Billion Words. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:8822. [PMID: 34444578 PMCID: PMC8391425 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18168822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Recently, 194 World Health Organization member states called on the international organization to develop a global campaign to combat ageism, citing its alarming ubiquity, insidious threat to health, and prevalence in the media. Existing media studies of age stereotypes have mostly been single-sourced. This study harnesses a 1.1-billion-word media database comprising the British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English-with genres including spoken/television, fiction, magazines, newspapers-to provide a comprehensive view of ageism in the United Kingdom and United States. The US and UK were chosen as they are home to the largest media conglomerates with tremendous power to shape public opinion. The most commonly used synonym of older adults was identified, and its most frequently used descriptors were analyzed for valence. Such computational linguistics techniques represent a new advance in studying aging narratives. The key finding is consistent, though no less alarming: Negative descriptions of older adults outnumber positive ones by six times. Negative descriptions tend to be physical, while positive ones tend to be behavioral. Magazines contain the highest levels of ageism, followed by the spoken genre, newspapers, and fiction. Findings underscore the need to increase public awareness of ageism and lay the groundwork to design targeted societal campaigns to tackle ageism-one of our generation's most pernicious threats.
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- Reuben Ng
- Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore;
- Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore
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James S, Sawyer AM. Wellbeing and Aging in The Australian Women's Weekly magazine. J Women Aging 2021; 34:229-245. [PMID: 33849409 DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2021.1908815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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This study investigates how the wellbeing trend in popular media regulates women's bodies and their selves through establishing norms around successful aging. We report on an exploratory qualitative content analysis of representations of wellbeing and aging from The Australian Women's Weekly (AWW) magazine. While some articles emphasized self-care and self-responsibility, many articulated relational and social/structural understandings of wellbeing. Compared with an earlier analysis of the AWW, our study found largely positive views of experiences of aging, associated with new opportunities and increased self-acceptance. These findings demonstrate how magazines both reflect and reinforce subtle processes of social change.
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- Sara James
- Sociology Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Sociology Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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Older women using women's magazines: the construction of knowledgeable selves. AGEING & SOCIETY 2020. [DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x20001129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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AbstractWomen's magazines are widely read in Canada. The popularity of such magazines is significant because critical gerontologists, primarily drawing on content analyses of the magazines, often argue that these publications convey problematic messages about ageing. This article broaches the subject of women's magazines and ageing from a different vantage point, that of the older woman reader herself. This audience-centred research draws on 21 semi-structured interviews with Canadian women over the age of 55. The study examines what older women say about the ageing-related content of women's magazines, along with what they say about how, when and why they read these magazines. Findings illustrate that participants are aware of the inadequate and unrealistic representations of older women in women's magazines. Nonetheless, they value the publications as a source of practical information on a variety of topics and as a light and undemanding source of entertainment and relaxation. The study reveals how participants assess and deploy magazine contents and characteristics in ways that contribute to, and are informed by, their lives and identities as older women. Against the broader cultural context of ageism, using and talking about women's magazines enables the participants to position themselves as knowledgeable and informed on a variety of topics and in multiple interactions, both in explicit reference to the magazines themselves and more generally in their lives.
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Bodner E, Bergman YS. The Utility of a Positive Body Image Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults Who Perceive Death to Be Near and Fear It. Res Aging 2019; 41:751-771. [PMID: 31030622 DOI: 10.1177/0164027519845115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Physical changes are an inevitable part of the aging process. However, research has demonstrated inconclusive findings with regard to body image among older adults. This study attempts to clarify the utility of body image among this age-group, by adopting the framework of terror management theory. It is suggested that a positive body image may moderate the connection between two types of death concerns and psychological distress: subjective nearness-to-death and death anxiety. A convenience sample of 386 community-dwelling older adults, aged 60-97, filled scales measuring subjective nearness-to-death, positive body image, psychological distress, and death anxiety. A significant negative association was found between a positive body image and distress. Moreover, positive body image moderated the connection between distress and both subjective nearness-to-death and death anxiety. Thus, holding a positive image of the body seems to be an important resource for older adults when death is perceived to be near.
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- Ehud Bodner
- 1 Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- 2 Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- 3 School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
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"I'll do anything to maintain my health": How women aged 65-94 perceive, experience, and cope with their aging bodies. Body Image 2017; 21:71-80. [PMID: 28329716 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Revised: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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We explored how physically active women perceived, experienced, and coped with their aging bodies, and examined their perceptions of the utility of self-compassion to manage aging body-related changes. Findings from a thematic analysis of interviews with 21 women aged 65-94 revealed that they were appreciative of how their bodies worked and accepting of their physical limitations, yet concurrently critical of their body's functionality and appearance. Participants engaged in physical activity and healthy eating to maintain their health and body functionality, yet also used diet, hair styling, anti-aging creams, makeup, physical activity, and clothing to manage their appearances. To assess their bodies (in)adequacies, they engaged in upward or downward social comparisons with others their age. Participants perceived self-compassion for the aging body to be idealistic and contextual. Findings highlight the importance of health and body functionality in influencing the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral management of the aging body.
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Pila E, Solomon-Krakus S, Egelton K, Sabiston CM. “I am a fat baby, who moved to a fat child, who moved to a fat teenager, who moved to a fat adult”: Women’s reflections of a lifetime of body and weight concern. J Women Aging 2017; 30:158-177. [DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2017.1295669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Eva Pila
- Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Jankowski GS. Who stops the sweatshops? Our neglect of the injustice of maldistribution. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Glen S. Jankowski
- School of Social Sciences; Leeds Beckett University; Leeds LS1 3HE U.K
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Smith ML, Bergeron CD, Cowart C, Ahn S, Towne SD, Ory MG, Menn MA, Chaney JD. Factors associated with ageist attitudes among college students. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2016; 17:1698-1706. [PMID: 27576764 DOI: 10.1111/ggi.12894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2016] [Revised: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 07/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AIM Ageist views have the potential to deleteriously impact large populations of older adults in the USA and worldwide. The high levels of ageism among young adults might originate from their limited interactions with older adults (individuals aged 65 years and older). The present study examined the factors associated with ageist attitudes among college students. METHODS Data were analyzed from 641 college students using an internet-delivered questionnaire. Participants were asked to rate their level of agreement with 17 ageist statements about older adults. A general least squares regression analysis was carried out to identify the associations of participants' sex, race/ethnicity and interactions with older adults on self-identified ageist attitudes. RESULTS Approximately 37% of participating college students interacted with older adults one or more times per week, 38.3% had resided with an older adult in their lifetime and 78.2% had volunteered/worked with an older adult. Participants who were female (P = 0.035), African American (P = 0.033), those with more frequent interaction with older adults (P = 0.001) and those with experience living with an older adult (P = 0.028) reported significantly lower negative ageist attitudes. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that increased exposure to and interactions with older adults can reduce ageist views among college students. Practical recommendations are provided to increase students' opportunities for interactions with and exposure to older adults. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2017; 17: 1698-1706.
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- Matthew Lee Smith
- College of Public Health, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.,Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station, Texas, USA
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- College of Public Health, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station, Texas, USA.,School of Public Health, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Department of Health Studies, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, USA
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- College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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Musambira GW, Raymond L, Hastings SO. A comparison of college students’ perceptions of older and younger tattooed women. J Women Aging 2016; 28:9-23. [DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2014.950894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Sawchuk D. Aging and older adults in three Roman Catholic magazines: Successful aging and the Third and Fourth Ages reframed. J Aging Stud 2015; 35:221-8. [PMID: 26568231 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2015.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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This article is a qualitative content analysis of how aging and older adults are represented in the articles of three Roman Catholic magazines in the United States: America, Commonweal, and U.S. Catholic. The findings suggest that, as in mainstream secular magazines, the concept of successful aging is common in portrayals of older adults in the Third Age. Distinctive in Catholic magazine portrayals of successful aging is an emphasis on meaningful activity and on the wisdom that is gained and transmitted in this stage of life. In contrast to the lack of attention to Fourth Age decline in mainstream magazines, in the Catholic publications the difficult features of such deterioration are acknowledged but are also reframed as potential sources of value. The theoretical implications of these more complex faith-based renderings of the Third and Fourth Ages are briefly explored.
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- Dana Sawchuk
- Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Brown A, Knight T. Shifts in media images of women appearance and social status from 1960 to 2010: A content analysis of beauty advertisements in two Australian magazines. J Aging Stud 2015; 35:74-83. [PMID: 26568217 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2015.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Revised: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ageing well and successful ageing have become important themes to describe how older individuals should keep ageing at bay. Products and services aimed at controlling ageing have become associated with ageing well. In this study we aimed to analyse the representation of older women in advertisements specific to appearance and ageing. In particular, we sought to explore how ageing for women was presented in the media over a period 50 years and when advertisements began to use the term 'anti-ageing'. A content analysis of 710 advertisements from two prominent Australian women's magazines, from 1960 to 2010, was conducted. Analyses showed that advertisements provided a narrow range of images representing women's physical appearance. The underlying messages were that ageing is problematic and that it had become unforgivable to show any signs of ageing. Text contained in advertisements for beauty products from the two chosen Australian magazines often gave specific and prescriptive advice to women on ways to avoid losing their youthful appearance. It was concluded that media relay powerful messages to spread and modify cultural beliefs informing individuals of a range of options that propose liberation from the problem of ageing.
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- Ann Brown
- School of Psychology, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, 23 Colstan Court, Mt. Eliza, Vic, 3930, Australia
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- School of Psychology, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, 23 Colstan Court, Mt. Eliza, Vic, 3930, Australia
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Ginsberg RL, Tinker L, Liu J, Gray J, Sangi-Haghpeykar H, Manson JE, Margolis KL. Prevalence and correlates of body image dissatisfaction in postmenopausal women. Women Health 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2015.1074636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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O'Neill D. Geriatric medicine and cultural gerontology. Age Ageing 2015; 44:353-5. [PMID: 25804894 DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afv040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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T.S. Eliot once proposed that there were two sorts of problems in life. One prompted the question, 'What are we going to do about it?' and the other provoked the questions, 'What does it mean? How does one relate to it?' Geriatric medicine, an eminently practical specialty, has concentrated with good effect on the former but with notable exceptions has yet to devote significant time to the latter. Into this breach has developed an innovative and exciting movement in gerontology to provide a deeper and more comprehensive insight into the meaning of ageing. Largely encompassed by the terms of cultural, humanistic and narrative gerontology, their intent and methodologies in many ways mirror the relationship between the medical humanities, narrative medicine and medicine.
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- Desmond O'Neill
- Trinity College Dublin-Centre for Ageing, Neuroscience and the Humanities, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland
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Kilpela LS, Becker CB, Wesley N, Stewart T. Body Image in Adult Women: Moving Beyond the Younger Years. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 3:144-164. [PMID: 26052476 DOI: 10.1080/21662630.2015.1012728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In spite of copious literature investigating body dissatisfaction and its correlates in adolescents and young adult women, exploration of body image disturbances in adult women remains an underrepresented domain in the literature. Yet, there are many reasons to suspect that body image in adult women both may differ from and possibly be more complex than that of younger women. Adult women face myriad factors influencing body image beyond those delineated in the body image literature on adolescents and young adult women. For instance, aging-related physiological changes shift the female body further away from the thin-young-ideal, which is the societal standard of female beauty. Further, life priorities and psychological factors evolve with age as well. As such, adult women encounter changes that may differentially affect body image across the lifespan. This paper aims to provide an up-to-date review of the current literature on the relationship between body image and associated mental and physical health problems and behaviors in adult women. In addition, we explore factors that may influence body image in adult women. Lastly, we use this review to identify significant gaps in the existing literature with the aim of identifying critical targets for future research.
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Constructions of sexuality in later life: Analyses of Canadian magazine and newspaper portrayals of online dating. J Aging Stud 2015; 32:40-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2014.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2014] [Revised: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Twigg J, Martin W. The Challenge of Cultural Gerontology. THE GERONTOLOGIST 2014; 55:353-9. [DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnu061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2014] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lewis-Smith H. Ageing, anxiety and appearance: exploring the body image of women in midlife. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.12968/joan.2014.3.3.134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Helena Lewis-Smith
- PhD Researcher, Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, Bristol
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Zimmermann HP, Grebe H. "Senior coolness": living well as an attitude in later life. J Aging Stud 2013; 28:22-34. [PMID: 24384364 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2013.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2013] [Revised: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 11/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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With demographic change becoming an ever more pressing issue in Germany, old age (80+) is currently talked about above all in terms of being a problem. In mainstream discourse on the situation of the oldest old an interpretive framework has emerged that effectively rules out the possibility of people living positively and well in old age. With regard to both individual (personal) and collective (societal) spheres, negative images of old age dominate public debate. This is the starting point for an interdisciplinary research project designed to look at the ways in which people manage to "live well in old age in the face of vulnerability and finitude"--in express contrast to dominant negative perspectives. Based on the results of this project, the present article addresses an attitudinal and behavioral mode which we have coined "senior coolness". Coolness here is understood as both a socio-cultural resource and an individualized habitus of everyday living. By providing an effective strategy of self-assertion, this ability can, as we show, be just as important for elderly people as for anyone else. "Senior coolness" is discussed, finally, as a phenomenon that testifies to the ways elderly people retain a positive outlook on life--especially in the face of difficult circumstances and powerful socio-cultural pressures.
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- Harm-Peer Zimmermann
- Institute of Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich, Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich, Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Runfola CD, Von Holle A, Trace SE, Brownley KA, Hofmeier SM, Gagne DA, Bulik CM. Body dissatisfaction in women across the lifespan: results of the UNC-SELF and Gender and Body Image (GABI) studies. EUROPEAN EATING DISORDERS REVIEW 2013; 21:52-9. [PMID: 22949165 PMCID: PMC3745223 DOI: 10.1002/erv.2201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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To explore age differences in current and preferred silhouette and body dissatisfaction (current - preferred silhouette discrepancy) in women aged 25-89 years using figural stimuli [range: 1 (very small) to 9 (very large)]. Data were abstracted from two online convenience samples (N = 5868). t-tests with permutation-adjusted p-values examined linear associations between mean silhouette scores (current, preferred, discrepancy score) and age with/without stratification by body mass index (BMI). Modal current silhouette was 5; modal preferred silhouette was 4; mean discrepancy score was 1.8. There was no significant association between current silhouette and age, but a positive linear association between preferred silhouette and age remained after stratification by BMI. A significant inverse linear association of silhouette discrepancy score and age was found only prior to stratification by BMI. Body dissatisfaction exists in women across the adult life span and is influenced by BMI.
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- Cristin D. Runfola
- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
- Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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