Body Image

Body Image 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17401445

Publisher: Elsevier

Body Image is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes
high-quality, scientific articles on body image and human physical
appearance. Body Image is a multi-faceted concept that refers to persons'
perceptions and attitudes about their own body, particularly but not
exclusively its appearance.

The journal invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines -
psychological science, other social and behavioral sciences, and medical and
health sciences. The journal publishes original research articles, brief
research reports, theoretical and review papers, and science-based
practitioner reports of interest. Dissertation abstracts are also published
online, and the journal gives an annual award for the best doctoral
dissertation in this field.

Suitable topics for submission of manuscripts include:

 * The effects of body image and physical characteristics (e.g., body size,
attractiveness, physical disfigurements or disorders) on psychological
functioning, interpersonal processes, and quality of life;

 * Body image and physical appearance in the full range of medical and
allied health contexts;

 * Body image and physical appearance in diverse cultural contexts;

 * Validation of assessments of the multidimensional body image construct;

 * Factors that influence positive and negative body image development;

 * Adaptive and maladaptive body image processes and their clinically
relevant consequences on psychosocial functioning and quality of life;

 * Relationship of body image to behavioral variables (e.g., exercise and
other physical activity, eating and weight-control behaviors, grooming and
appearance-modifying behaviors, and social behaviors);

 * Scientific evaluation of interventions to promote positive body image or
to prevent or treat body image difficulties and disorders.

ISSN: 1740-1445

Editor in Chief:

T. Cash Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
USA

Tel: +1 757 683 4439
Fax: +1 757 683 5087
Email: bodyimage@odu.edu

Content available by subscription. Sample issue available online.
 
Abstracts available online. Full-text available in HTML and PDF.
 
Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3 (September 2004)

Date: 25 Oct. 2004