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Body Image Perceptions of Adolescent Daughters and Their Mothers in U.S.  

Lee, Seung-Hee (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Sookmyung Women's University)
Ulrich Pamela V. (Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Auburn University)
Connell Lenda J. (Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Auburn University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles / v.30, no.12, 2006 , pp. 1714-1722 More about this Journal
Abstract
Women's perceptions of body size and body image are important topics for researchers in multiple fields. The terms body image or body self refer to perceptions and beliefs that an individual holds about his or her body (Rosenbaum, 1979; Schilder, 1953). Few studies have focused on body image perceptions as they relate to parent-child pairs. This study investigated the perceptions that mothers and daughters each had of their own body, the other's body, and their ideals for the same. The purposive sample used in this study consisted of 41 mother-daughter pairs. The sampled focus was girls between ages 9 and 14, and their mothers. Significant differences between how mothers saw their daughters and how daughters saw themselves emerged only for the plus size group. The clearest significant difference between mothers and daughters was in their dissatisfaction with themselves. The mothers were more dissatisfied. flus-size girls were significantly more dissatisfied with their mothers' bodies than normal size girls were with their mothers' bodies. The mothers of plus size girls were significantly more dissatisfied with their daughters' bodies than were the mothers of normal size daughters.
Keywords
Body image; Body image perception; Adolescents; Tweens;
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