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- W1534761446 abstract "Body image is a particularly troubling issue during adolescence, with many reporting significant weight and shape concerns during this time. The surrounding sociocultural environment can be seen to be integral to the experience of these concerns, and to shape the form they subsequently take. A major context in which this culture may manifest and be reproduced is the school environment, with the high school being seen as a key venue for the development and expression of body image concerns in adolescent girls. More specifically, the school environment may contribute through body perfection codes and dominant discourses embedded in the curricular structure and general school ethos, or in a more informal way through the formation of peer appearance cultures, which have been found to contribute to eating disorders and related issues in adolescent girls.This thesis aimed to further examine the role of the school environment in contributing to body image concerns and disordered eating in adolescent girls, using a mixed-methods design. The first stage of this project, an ethnographic analysis, focused on the transmission of, and value placed upon, body image and weight concerns in a particular all-girls‟ school. Interviews (both group and individual) and open-ended surveys, as well as observations and textual analysis, were employed in this phase of the project, with data collected from teachers, parents, and students. Results indicated that an appearance-based culture was evident in this school environment, with students, parents and staff members all noting the importance of the school, and peers in particular, in fostering weight consciousness and influencing eating habits.Following this, the contribution of the school and friendship groups to body image and weight concerns was quantitatively examined. Questionnaires were administered to 314 students (224 females and 90 males) from 2 coeducational schools and an all-girls‟ school, in a replication and extension of a previous Australian study investigating friendship clique similarities in body image concerns and eating behaviours (Paxton, Schutz, Wertheim, & Muir, 1999). This phase also aimed to explore the potential differences between single-sex and coeducational schools in terms of their students‟ body image and weight concerns. Overall, findings indicated that all-girls‟ students exhibited more body image concern than coeducational girls, with different predictive factors emerging in each school-type, indicating that the gender composition of a school is an important factor. Furthermore, this study verified that body image concern and dieting behaviour are more similar within friendship cliques than across the whole school cohort, particularly in all-girls‟ schools, replicating and extending the findings of Paxton and colleagues.Overall, this study indicates that the school environment and the peer cultures embedded within play an important role in the development and maintenance of body image and weight concerns, particularly within all-girls‟ schools. This has implications for the prevention and treatment of such concerns, moving away from a narrow focus on individual concomitants towards more complex cultural influences. This thesis also adds significantly to the research literature, providing greater insight into how peers, and more broadly schools, may contribute to disordered eating and body image concerns." @default.
- W1534761446 created "2016-06-24" @default.
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- W1534761446 date "2010-01-01" @default.
- W1534761446 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
- W1534761446 title "“What you look like is such a big factor”: Exploring the role of peer appearance cultures in the high school environment" @default.
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