@article{ref1,
title="Beautiful from the inside out a school-based programme designed to increase self-esteem and positive body image among preadolescents",
journal="Canadian journal of school psychology",
year="2011",
author="Norwood, Sarah Jane and Murray, Marisa and Nolan, Amanda and Bowker, Anne",
volume="26",
number="4",
pages="263-282",
abstract="The goal of the present study was to design, implement, and evaluate a school-based programme that aimed to increase self-esteem and positive body image among preadolescent boys and girls. Participants in grades five and six (N = 77; Mage = 10.86, 53.2% girls) from a public school in Eastern Ontario completed a battery of validated measures to assess factors related to self-esteem and body image, one week before and one week after the programme. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that, for both boys and girls, participation in the programme was associated with significantly higher levels of self-esteem and positive body image. The programme was also effective in making participants significantly more aware but less accepting of the distorted and unrealistic body ideals perpetuated by the media. <br><br>FINDINGS support a new approach for improving body image among Canadian preadolescents. Implications for educators, researchers, and clinicians are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0829-5735",
doi="10.1177/0829573511423632",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0829573511423632"
}