Alison Field
Alison Field
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The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys as well as girls, ... Both are influenced by the images they see in the media, which can be unrealistically thin for girls and unrealistically muscular for boys.
comparing help image parents teens themselves understand
Parents have to help teens understand that they're comparing themselves to an image that isn't real.
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One of the questions we asked them is how much effort they were making to look like females they see in the media,