Positive body image in adolescent girls: possible ways of promotion through psychological and educational technologies.

Abstract

This paper is analyzing promotion of positive body image for the adolescent girls. The formative experiment involved teenagers aged 14-15 years (N=59). The formative experiment revealed that the positive body image may be promoted for the girls by training aimed at reducing anxiety about body weight and shapes, expanding internalized stereotypes about the body and increasing the value of the body (differences in body image components before and after the training are found to be significant at p≤0.05).