Effect of gender composition of school on body concerns in adolescent women. |
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Tiggemann, Marika
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Flinders U of South Australia, School of Psychology, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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3/2001
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Journal
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International-Journal-of-Eating-Disorders
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Vol 29(2): 239-243
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Youths, Research, Females, Body Image; Eating Disorders; School Environment, Coeducation
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Pedagogies |
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Investigated the role of gender composition of school on body figure preferences, eating disorder symptomology, and role concerns. Questionnaires were completed by 261 adolescent girls (mean age 16.1 yrs) in 2 private single-sex and 2 private coeducational school environments. Results show that there was no difference in nominated ideal figure or eating disorder scores between the schools. However, girls in the single-sex schools placed a greater emphasis on achievement than their counterparts at the coeducational schools. These role concerns had a differential impact on prediction of the ideal figure, whereby the importance placed on intelligence and professional success predicted the choice of a thinner ideal figure for the single-sex schools, but a larger ideal for the coeducational schools. It was concluded that the motivation for thinness differs between single-sex and coeducational schools. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
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