Query: self-image in adolescence

title: Identity and Self Image in Adolescence A Case Study of Bumburet Valley in District Chitral Pakistan
abstract: The study was conducted in Bumburet valley of district Chitral, Pakistan. Qualitative anthropological research technique was adopted for acquiring the ethnographic data for the research in hand. This research paper is an attempt to understand ancestral and cultural traditions of the Kalash people. How these traditions are transmitted from one generation to the next? They teach and preach youth the rituals, offering and sacrifice. Adolescents are the ones to whom the traditions, customs and culture are transmitted and it requires maximum understanding and communication between the elders and the youth. They are considered as custodians of culture. The adolescence period is very critical for the children of minority ethnic group. Extensive socialization is required to conform to their traditions. The natural setting and the type of education a child receives plays a predominant role on his future pursuits. The Muslim and Kalash parents encourage both their sons and daughter to seek education. Academic intelligence and practical thinking can develop independently and may grant a specific identity to the individual which may be different to his cultural identity. Kalash identity is based upon unique and nonviolent way of life. The changes which incorporate in Kalash traditions may find their way through peripheral adjustments. The Kalash youth insist on keeping their self identity as well as participating in modernity. Technological development does not clash with the basic practices and taboos enforced by the religion are generally accepted.

title: Depressive Symptoms and Academic Self Image in Adolescence
abstract: The aim of this paper was to specifically analyse the relationship between the different components of academic self image, defined as the way adolescents represent themselves as students, and self reported depressive symptoms, assessed with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) in a non clinical sample of 298 adolescents. We considered both adolescents' beliefs about their own cognitive functioning in academic performance and beliefs about their emotional attitude in achievement situations. Our data indicate that the pattern of correlation between emotional beliefs about schooling and learning are significantly related to CDI scores, but this correlation is not evident for the cognitive beliefs. This pattern of correlation is affected by actual school functioning, because correlation between CDI and beliefs is much more significant in subjects without school failure. Differences between gender in CDI scores, beliefs about schooling and learning, and pattern of correlation are considered. These results can enable to focus supporting psychological interventions on more specific targets.

title: Memories of the self in adolescence: examining 6558 self image norms
abstract: Adolescence is a critical developmental period. It involves the construction and consolidation of "the self" and the laying down of autobiographical memories that endure throughout life. There is limited data that examines how young people spontaneously describe their "self" The aim of the current study is to provide normative data of adolescent generated self images and present this in a freely accessible database. A secondary aim is to compare adult and adolescent self images. Young people (n 822) aged 13 18 years completed the Twenty Statements Test a task that requires participants to generate their own self images. Data were coded into "Self image norms" according to the method devised by Rathbone and Moulin [2017. Exploring memories of the self: 2412 self image norms for adults aged 17 to 88. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1445) doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01445] Descriptive data showed that positive "Traits" were most often used by adolescents to describe "the self" There were few gender differences, but boys generated fewer self images than girls. Adolescents were more likely to use "Traits" to describe their "self" and adults were more likely to use "Social roles." These data are the first set of self images generated by adolescents, collated in a freely accessible database. They can be used to understand how "the self" is described by adolescents and will be useful for cueing autobiographical memories in young people.

title: comparison maladaptive schema and self image in fat and normal weight female adolescence

title: Do aerobic fitness and self reported fitness in adolescence differently predict body image in young adulthood? An eight year follow up study
abstract: To study whether fitness level in adolescence predicts body image in young adulthood.  Longitudinal study in which n 385 participants were measured at age 15 and n 201 at age 23. Fitness was assessed both objectively and subjectively. Body image was evaluated with the Offer Self Image Questionnaire. Cross lagged structural equation model was used to study whether fitness at age 15 predicted body image at age 23, covariates included sex, body mass index, physical activity, and socioeconomic status.  Aerobic fitness at age 15 was the strongest predictor (b 0.372; p  Objectively measured fitness in adolescence is an independent predictor of body image in young adulthood, whereas self reported fitness is not. Strong fitness in adolescence is important for a healthy body image later in life.

title: The relationship between self Image and social anxiety in adolescence.
abstract: Self image is the subjective perception about one's own self, body, mental functioning, social attitudes, and adjustment in different aspects of life. Research has linked negative self image with a number of problem behaviors and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence; however, studies of the relationship between self image and anxiety disorders are still scarce.  This study involved a community sample of 1305 high school students (51.4% female) who ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old. They completed self report measures of self image and social anxiety disorder (SAD)  A quarter of the students reported high levels of social anxiety. Statistical analyses showed significant differences between these students and the other students in all the self image subscales. Several dimensions of impaired self image (emotional tone, social attitudes, vocational and educational goals, family relationships, external mastery, and psychological health) were associated with high levels of social anxiety, with some gender differences underpinning these relationships.  Clinicians treating SAD in youth may wish to consider that a negative self image may play a critical role in the onset and retention of social anxiety symptoms.

title: [Self image in adolescence: gender differences and areas of psychological distress]

title: Developing anorexia nervosa in adolescence: the role of self image as a risk factor in a prevalence study
abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence risk for developing anorexia nervosa (AN) in a very wide sample of adolescents aged 15 19 years, obtaining a psychological profile of these at risk subjects, as assessed by the Italian Offer Self Image Questionnaire ( Data were extracted from ESPAD Italia(r)2005 database (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) The study (17,866 adolescents, 15 19 years old; 47.8% males) also evaluated gender, age, weight, height and Eating Attitude Test 26 (EAT 26) The OSIQ psychometric qualities were evaluated. Multinomial analysis assessed self image risk of AN association.  Adolescents at risk approached 1.4% (2.2% of girls and 0.5% of boys) 19 and 17 year old females exhibited a higher prevalence. Overall adolescent risk included: impulse control, family relationships and psychopathology. Critical areas in the AN developing showed age and gender differences: body image for younger females, impulse control for the older, psychopathology for young males and sexual attitudes for the older represented the poorer adjustment dimensions.  Results support screening procedures and tailored school based prevention.

title: The impact of body posture on self image and psychosocial functioning during adolescence

title: Educational action with high school adolescents: a reflection on self image and food disorders
abstract: The way the individual perceives his own body is modified over time, and this occurs more intensely during adolescence. Body dissatisfaction is highlighted as one of the important factors considered for the diagnosis of eating disorders and is also one of the triggers for their occurrence. Thus, the following study aims to report a health education experience carried out with adolescents from a Professional High School in a municipality of Macico de Baturite, geological formation located in the central hinterland of Ceara, addressing the theme of body self image and its implications for the occurrence of Eating Disorders. The activity took place through stages that contained dynamics of interaction and introduction of the theme, as well as approaching the content in a dialogical way. Given the above, there are still deficits in addressing the theme in the school environment and in other environments in which the adolescent is inserted. Therefore, the role of educational sectors allied to health are perceived as areas that must be articulated in order to guarantee greater support and assistance to young people and their families, characterizing the performance of the multiprofessional team in the aspect of psychosocial care.