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Brief report : maltreatment in childhood and body concerns in adulthood
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Leah Brooke, Alexander MussapAlexander MussapObjective: We examined the relationship between maltreatment in childhood and body concerns in adulthood.
Method: A community sample of 156 women and 143 men completed measures of maltreatment – frequency of sexual abuse, physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse and emotional neglect – in childhood. They also reported current dissatisfaction with body weight and shape and drive for thinness and drive for muscle.
Results and conclusions: Childhood maltreatment was associated with drive for muscle in women and body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in men. The results provide some evidence that adverse conditions in childhood can be associated with gender-atypical body concerns in adulthood.
Method: A community sample of 156 women and 143 men completed measures of maltreatment – frequency of sexual abuse, physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse and emotional neglect – in childhood. They also reported current dissatisfaction with body weight and shape and drive for thinness and drive for muscle.
Results and conclusions: Childhood maltreatment was associated with drive for muscle in women and body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in men. The results provide some evidence that adverse conditions in childhood can be associated with gender-atypical body concerns in adulthood.
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Journal of health psychologyVolume
18Issue
5Pagination
620 - 626Publisher
Sage PublicationsLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1359-1053eISSN
1461-7277Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2012, Sage publishersUsage metrics
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