Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance

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938 Seiten

2012
Academic Press Inc
978-0-12-384925-0 (ISBN)

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Focuses on human physical appearance - how people's outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives. This work covers important theories, perspectives, and concepts for understanding body image and appearance.

This scholarly work is the most comprehensive existing resource on human physical appearance—how people’s outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives. The encyclopedia’s 117 full-length chapters are composed and edited by the world’s experts from a range of disciplines—social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. The extensive topical coverage in this valuable reference work includes: (1) Important theories, perspectives, and concepts for understanding body image and appearance; (2) Scientific measurement of body image and physical attributes (anthropometry); (3) The development and determinants of human appearance and body image over the lifespan: (4) How culture and society influences the meanings of human appearance; (5) The psychosocial effects of appearance-altering disease, damage, and visible differences; (6) Appearance self-change and self-management; (7) The prevention and treatment of body image problems, including psychosocial and medical interventions. Chapters are written in a manner that is accessible and informative to a wide audience, including the educated public, college and graduate students, and scientists and clinical practitioners. Each well-organized chapter provides a glossary of definitions of any technical terms and a Further Reading section of recommended sources for continued learning about the topic.

Available online via ScienceDirect or in a limited-release print version.

Congenital and Acquired Appearance-Altering Conditions

Body Image Dysfunctions and Disorders

Historical/Conceptual/Theoretical Perspectives

Appearance and Body Image Measurement

Psychosocial Approaches to Body Image Change and Prevention

Sociocultural Influences

Changing the Body—Surgical, Medical, and Other Interventions

Individual and Cultural Differences

Appearance Self-Change and Self-Management

Personal/Social Meanings and Influences of Variations in Human Appearance

Developmental Perspectives

Mitarbeit	Chef-Herausgeber: Thomas F. Cash
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 276 mm
Gewicht	3270 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-12-384925-X / 012384925X
ISBN-13	978-0-12-384925-0 / 9780123849250
Zustand	Neuware