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Annotated Bibliography Hahn-Smith, .M. & Smith, J.E. (2001). The positive influence of maternal identification on body image, eating attitudes, and self-esteem of Hispanic and Anglo girls. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 29 (4), 429-440. Maternal identification was positively correlated with girls self-esteem and negatively correlated with eating problems and body dissatisfaction. Also, mothers with high self-esteem tended to have daughters with high self-esteem. The mothers of girls with tow BES scores found a significantly greater discrepancy than the mothers of girls with high BES scores when contrasting their daughters current shape with either the ideal figure for their daughter or the figure they believed boys would find attractive.

Girls who aspired to be like their mothers in terms of personality traits felt better about themselves and their bodies compared with girls with low maternal identification.Kolodinsky, J., Labrecque, J., Doyon, M., Reynolds, T., Oble, F., Bellavance, F., & Marquis, M. (2008). Sex and cultural differences in the acceptance of functional foods: A comparison of American, Canadian, and French College Students. Journal of American College Health, 57 (2), 143-149.Overall, participants slightly favored FF over traditional foods.

However, although most respondents associated FF with positive health benefits, many remained dubious of currently available FF information. In terms of culture and sex, the authors found small but significant divergences in FF knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Stronger labeling and education efforts may increase cross-cultural acceptance of FF by college students.Thomsen, S.R., Weber, M.M., & Brown, L.B. (2002). The relationship between reading beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods among adolescent females.

Adolescence, 37 (145), 1-17.This study examined the relationship between reading womens beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods (laxatives, appetite suppressants/diet pills, skipping two meals a day, intentional vomiting, and restricting calories to 1,200 or less each day) among 502 high school females. Weak to moderate positive associations were found between reading frequency and each of these unhealthful practices except the use of laxatives. When controlling for anxiety about weight and frequency of regular exercise, however, the original bivariate relations between reading frequency and skipping two meals a day, and reading and intentional vomiting, disappeared.

Replication and weak specification effects were found when examining the relationships between reading and taking appetite suppressant/weight control pills, and reading and restricting calories, under the control conditions. These findings suggest that two of the most common adolescent dieting methods--restricting calories and taking diet pills--appear to be influenced by the reading of womens beauty and fashion magazines.Vocks, S., Wächter, A., Wucherer, M., & Kosfelder, J. (2008). Look at yourself: Can body image therapy affect the cognitive and emotional response to seeing oneself in the mirror in eating disorders?

European Eating Disorders Review, 16 (2), 147-154.The study examined whether the extent of negative body-related thoughts and emotions evoked by looking in a mirror can be changed by cognitive-behavioral body image therapy (BIT) and whether any remaining cognitive and affective responses dropped faster after the treatment. Females with eating disorders (n= 17) looked in a mirror for 40 minutes under standardized conditions before and after BIT. A control group (CG) (n ¼ 24) was also exposed to their own bodies twice.

Cognitive and affective reactions were assessed four times during the session. Hierarchical Linear Modelling revealed that among eating-disordered patients, the entrance levels of negative thoughts and feelings were lower at post compared to pre-BIT, whereas they remained stable in the CG. The extent of reduction of the remaining body image distress was not changed after the treatment. BIT seems to be a potent treatment of negative emotions and cognitions in an in vivo situation