Abstract
Body image is a growing concerns in the mass especially in the young adults females who are witnessing several secondary changes and are striving to establish and sustain their own identity. Dissatisfaction with physical body and striving for betterment has been found to be partly nurtured by our social, cultural norms and traditions as well as the publicization by media. There has been many researchers conducted in this realm. But, the cross cultural variations between India and the USA within the young adults females exploring the role of ethnicity, religion, media, society etc has been les explored. Hence, the aim of the present review was to investigate the effect of various sources in the nurturance of perceived and ideal body image in the young adults’ females of India and the USA. Overall, it has been found that there has been dearth of research findings especially in the population selected in this study and that interplay of factors accounting to the discrepancy between perceived and ideal self body image.
Highlights
Body image is a growing concerns in the mass especially in the young adults females who are witnessing several secondary changes and are striving to establish and sustain their own identity
There has been a significant increase in the body of literature available regarding the psychology of body image
Thomas Cash (2004) notes that there was a remarkable increase in the citations and research on body image and bodysatisfaction in the PsychInfo database from 726 in the 1970’s to 2,477 in the 1990’s, and as a final point a journal named Body Image: an “International Journal of Research” was launched in 2004
Summary
Body image is a growing concerns in the mass especially in the young adults females who are witnessing several secondary changes and are striving to establish and sustain their own identity. Thomas Cash (2004) notes that there was a remarkable increase in the citations and research on body image and body (dis)satisfaction in the PsychInfo database from 726 in the 1970’s to 2,477 in the 1990’s, and as a final point a journal named Body Image: an “International Journal of Research” was launched in 2004. This increase in literature indicates the relevance of reviewing this broad area by fragmenting it into specific themes and understanding relations between these themes in varied populations
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