Body-Image Satisfaction Among Black Women
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 129 (1), 107-112
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1989.9711705
Abstract
The relationship of body-image satisfaction to body weight, self-esteem, and perceptions of significant others was explored among 102 Black adult women. A sizeable proportion of the women reported some degree of body-image dissatisfaction. Body weight was inversely related to body-image satisfaction, whereas self-esteem was positively related to body-image satisfaction. Perceptions of significant others were related to both self-esteem and body-image satisfaction.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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