DEVELOPMENTAL TEASING ABOUT PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: RETROSPECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH BODY IMAGE
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd in Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
- Vol. 23 (2), 123-130
- https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1995.23.2.123
Abstract
Among the potential influences on body-image development are experiences of appearance-related teasing and criticism during childhood or adolescence. The present study of 111 female college students examined the recollection of such experiences. Persistent appearance teasing/criticism was commonly recalled and its physical foci were diverse, though facial characteristics and weight were apparently most often targeted. Peers were deemed the worst perpetrators of appearance teasing/criticism, yet family members, especially brothers, were also often implicated. Women who reported having had more prevalent and distressing experiences of this nature currently held more dissatisfying and disturbing body images.Keywords
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