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Article: An examination of self-presentational concern of Turkish adolescents: an example of physical education setting.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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INTRODUCTION
In an increasingly image-based society, it is important to understand the roles adolescents' bodily concern and self-presentation play in their lives. The culturally accepted ideal stereotype appears to promote a "societal obsession" with body shape, size, weight, virility, and appearance of one's body (Stice & Shaw, 1994). Physical appearance is a particularly important psychological construct associated with social acceptance among adolescents (Lerner, Lerner, Hess, Schwab, Jovanic, Talwar, & Kicher, 1991) and the drive for thinness among adolescent females in Western societies is a prominent issue (Gray, 1993; Sands, 2000; White, 1992) that is of ...