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Title: | Understanding body image in physical education |
Authors: | Kerner, C Haerens, L Kirk, D |
Keywords: | Body image;Physical education;Body satisfaction;Intervention;Schools |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Citation: | European Physical Education Review, (2017) |
Abstract: | Body image disturbance in children and adolescents has negative implications for psychological and physical well-being. To positively impact well-being, it is important to explore factors that influence body image and to identify strategies that can be used to reduce body image disturbance. The school curriculum can play a significant role in shaping how children and adolescents experience their bodies. Within this school curriculum, physical education lessons represent one of the only school subjects in which the body is a focus of curricular outcomes. In physical education, the body is judged for physical ability but is also situated in a space that provides the potential for social comparisons and body judgements. Significant attention has been paid to the development of classroom-based interventions that aim at reducing body image disturbance, yet physical education has largely been ignored as a context in which one can effectively intervene. This paper reviews current knowledge on the relationship between physical education and body image disturbance by using the cognitive-behavioural model of body image developments as a guiding framework. It also considers the contribution that physical education could make to wider school-based interventions. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14598 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356336X17692508 |
ISSN: | 1356-336X |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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