Understanding body image in physical education : current knowledge and future directions
Kerner, Charlotte and Haerens, Leen and Kirk, David (2018) Understanding body image in physical education : current knowledge and future directions. European Physical Education Review, 24 (2). pp. 255-265. ISSN 1356-336X (https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X17692508)
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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.
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Kerner, Charlotte, Haerens, Leen and Kirk, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-9106;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 59765 Dates: DateEvent1 May 2018Published13 February 2017Published Online16 January 2017AcceptedSubjects: Education > Special aspects of education Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 10 Feb 2017 16:42 Last modified: 03 Dec 2024 03:16 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/59765