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What do early adolescent girls like and dislike about their appearance? A qualitative and quantitative examination of body appreciation among ethnically diverse girls
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Frick, Erika. What do early adolescent girls like and dislike about their appearance? A qualitative and quantitative examination of body appreciation among ethnically diverse girls. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-saxk-gc88

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TitleWhat do early adolescent girls like and dislike about their appearance? A qualitative and quantitative examination of body appreciation among ethnically diverse girls
NameFrick, Erika (author); Markey, Charlotte (chair); August, Kristin (member); Hart, Daniel (member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Camden
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-01 (degree)
SubjectWomen's studies, Body appreciation, Body image, Early adolescents, Qualitative research, Race/ethnicity
Extent32 pages : illustrations
DescriptionThe current study examined early adolescent girls’ perceptions of their appearance and their body appreciation. Several research questions have been explored: Do girls of this age experience body appreciation? What physical features are girls most likely to identify as the features they most like and dislike about their appearance? Is liking or disliking of certain physical features most likely to contribute to or detract from body appreciation? Are there differences in these experiences by race/ethnicity? The participants were 142 early adolescent girls (M age = 12.06, SD = 1.22, range = 10-15 years). Girls’ body image was measured using the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (Tylka & Wood- Barcalow, 2015) and two open-ended questions about the physical features they like and dislike. Results indicate that preadolescent girls’ body appreciation is similar to that of adult women’s and that girls’ who report liking their body features are more likely to have higher body appreciation than girls who report liking their facial features. No significant ethnic differences in body appreciation were found. This study contributes to the body image literature by examining these constructs among an ethnically diverse sample, a younger sample than is typically studied, and through the inclusion of qualitative responses from girls.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-saxk-gc88
LanguageEnglish
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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