Importantly, findings from the present study also suggest that parental influence on adolescent PA may vary by sex, such that perceived encouragement for PA from fathers, but not mothers, predicted
body satisfaction among their sons, but not daughters.
Romantic Relationships and
Body Satisfaction Among Young Women.
Ridgway found the discrepancies between their actual and ideal selves were significantly magnified post-screening, and self - reported mood and
body satisfaction among both men and women decreased compared to their baseline reports.
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These new guidelines laid down by the IRDA insurance regulatory
body aims to decrease the frauds and to increase
satisfaction among insurance policy holders.
Results:
Among both overweight males and females, risk factors for disordered eating included exposure to weight loss magazine articles, higher weight importance, and unhealthy weight control behaviors, while family connectedness,
body satisfaction, and regular meals were protective factors, although there were some differences in predictors of prevalence (total cases) versus incidence (new cases) of disordered eating.
Pearson correlations were used to examine the association
among the study variables and hierarchical regression analyses were used to predict
body satisfaction at age 16.
Collectively, our findings suggest that additional longitudinal research
among adolescent boys and girls is needed examining different types of parental encouragement to better understand the influence of parental encouragement on adolescent PA, as well as the link with
body satisfaction.
Lastly, findings from the present study indicate adolescent sex may moderate associations
among parental encouragement for PA, adolescent PA, and
body satisfaction; thus, future work should also consider examining the moderating effects of sex between same sex and opposite sex parents.