OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Body Image is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Body functionality: A review of the literature	118
Meta-analysis of gender differences in body appreciation	93
Are We There Yet? Progress in Depicting Diverse Images of Beauty in Instagram’s Body Positivity Movement	82
Uploading your best self: Selfie editing and body dissatisfaction	76
Becoming an object: A review of self-objectification in girls	74
Compared to Facebook, Instagram use causes more appearance comparison and lower body satisfaction in college women	71
#Loveyourbody: The effect of body positive Instagram captions on women’s body image	69
Social media, body satisfaction and well-being among adolescents: A mediation model of appearance-ideal internalization and comparison	68
Unique associations of social media use and online appearance preoccupation with depression, anxiety, and appearance rejection sensitivity	66
The effect of Instagram #fitspiration images on young women’s mood, body image, and exercise behaviour	65
Social media, body image, and the question of causation: Meta-analyses of experimental and longitudinal evidence	59
The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale: Development and validation with adolescents	58
Young women’s body image following upwards comparison to Instagram models: The role of physical appearance perfectionism and cognitive emotion regulation	53
Body appreciation and its psychological correlates: A systematic review and meta-analysis	50
Body Positivity (#BoPo) in everyday life: An ecological momentary assessment study showing potential benefits to individuals’ body image and emotional wellbeing	49
#Take idealized bodies out of the picture: A scoping review of social media content aiming to protect and promote positive body image	46
Weight stigma and media: An examination of the effect of advertising campaigns on weight bias, internalized weight bias, self-esteem, body image, and affect	44
The experience of embodiment scale: Development and psychometric evaluation	42
Taking it apart and putting it back together again: Using Item Pool Visualisation to summarise complex data patterns in (positive) body image research	42
A picture is worth a thousand words: The effect of viewing celebrity Instagram images with disclaimer and body positive captions on women’s body image	42
A cluster randomized controlled trial of the SoMe social media literacy body image and wellbeing program for adolescent boys and girls: Study protocol	41
Science mapping research on body image: A bibliometric review of publications in Body Image, 2004–2020	39
Add a comment … how fitspiration and body positive captions attached to social media images influence the mood and body esteem of young female Instagram users	39
Body image disturbance and sexual orientation: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	38
#Bopo: Enhancing body image through body positive social media- evidence to date and research directions	38

Body image and internalization of appearance ideals in Black women: An update and call for culturally-sensitive research	37
Differences in weight stigma between gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men	37
What a body can do: Rethinking body functionality through a feminist materialist disability lens	37
Examining associations among weight stigma, weight bias internalization, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms: Does weight status matter?	36
#quarantine15: A content analysis of Instagram posts during COVID-19	35
Exploring transgender adolescents’ body image concerns and disordered eating: Semi-structured interviews with nine gender minority youth	34
Translation and validation of body image instruments: An addendum to Swami and Barron (2019) in the form of frequently asked questions	33
Strong is the New Skinny, but is it Ideal?: A Test of the Tripartite Influence Model using a new Measure of Fit-Ideal Internalisation	31
The effects of yoga on functionality appreciation and additional facets of positive body image	31
The role of sexual minority stress and community involvement on disordered eating, dysmorphic concerns and appearance- and performance-enhancing drug misuse	31
Muscles and bare chests on Instagram: The effect of Influencers’ fashion and fitspiration images on men’s body image	31
“My critical filter buffers your app filter”: Social media literacy as a protective factor for body image	31
The differential impact of viewing fitspiration and thinspiration images on men’s body image concerns: An experimental ecological momentary assessment study	30
Pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction among women: The U.S. Body Project I	30
Examining the utility of nonlinear machine learning approaches versus linear regression for predicting body image outcomes: The U.S. Body Project I	30
Do the metrics matter? An experimental investigation of Instagram influencer effects on mood and body dissatisfaction	30
Demographic predictors of body image satisfaction: The U.S. Body Project I	30
The effects of fitspiration and self-compassion Instagram posts on body image and self-compassion in men and women	30
Does a Facebook-enhanced Mindful Self-Compassion intervention improve body image? An evaluation study	29
Body image and depressive symptoms among transgender and cisgender adults: Examining a model integrating the tripartite influence model and objectification theory	29
The cosmetic surgery paradox: Toward a contemporary understanding of cosmetic surgery popularisation and attitudes	29
The effect of viewing challenging “reality check” Instagram comments on women’s body image	28
Psychometric properties of an Arabic translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS) in Lebanese adults	28
The effect of physical appearance perfectionism and social comparison to thin-, slim-thick-, and fit-ideal Instagram imagery on young women’s body image	28
The association between body appreciation and body mass index among males and females: A meta-analysis	28
Pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction among men: The U.S. Body Project I	27
Body image flexibility and its correlates: A meta-analysis	27
Social media and body image: Modulating effects of social identities and user characteristics	27
Incorporating social media and muscular ideal internalization into the tripartite influence model of body image: Towards a modern understanding of adolescent girls’ body dissatisfaction	26
The “Little Red Riding Hood effect:” Fitspiration is just as bad as thinspiration for women’s body satisfaction	26
Demographic predictors of objectification theory and tripartite influence model constructs: The U.S. Body Project I	26
Ethnic/racial and gender differences in body image disorders among a diverse sample of sexual minority U.S. adults	26
A test of the tripartite influence model of disordered eating among men	25
Examining the factor structure, sex invariance, and psychometric properties of the Body Image Acceptance and Action Questionnaire and the Functionality Appreciation Scale	25
Anxiety and depression in adolescents with a visible difference: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
A bifactor analysis of the Weight Bias Internalization Scale: What are we really measuring?	25
Effects of taking selfies on women’s self-objectification, mood, self-esteem, and social aggression toward female peers	25
The effects of engaging in digital photo modifications and receiving favorable comments on women’s selfies shared on social media	25
The dangers of the rabbit hole: Reflections on social media as a portal into a distorted world of edited bodies and eating disorder risk and the role of algorithms	23
Body image in women diagnosed with breast cancer: A grounded theory study	23
Body image and acceptance of cosmetic surgery in China and the Netherlands: A qualitative study on cultural differences and similarities	23
The effects of body-positive Instagram posts on body image in adult women	23
Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Translation of the Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale	23
The Norwegian healthy body image intervention promotes positive embodiment through improved self-esteem	23
Minority stress and body dysmorphic disorder symptoms among sexual minority adolescents and adult men	23
Objectifying the body positive movement: The effects of sexualizing and digitally modifying body-positive images on Instagram	22
“Having a non-normative body for me is about survival”: Androgynous body ideal among trans and nonbinary individuals	21
The effectiveness of brief animated films as a scalable micro-intervention to improve children’s body image: A randomised controlled trial	21
Beauty ideals, social media, and body positivity: A qualitative investigation of influences on body image among young women in Japan	21
Instagram Sexualization: When posts make you feel dissatisfied and wanting to change your body	21

Digital modification and body image on social media: Disclaimer labels, captions, hashtags, and comments	20
Assessing positive body image, body satisfaction, weight bias, and appearance comparison in emerging adults: A cross-validation study across eight countries	20
Body image across the adult lifespan: A longitudinal investigation of developmental and cohort effects	20
Psychometric evaluation of the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory (MDDI) among cisgender gay men and cisgender lesbian women	19
Using immersive virtual reality to modify body image	19
Self-compassion as a moderator of the relationships between shape and weight overvaluation and eating disorder psychopathology, psychosocial impairment, and psychological distress	19
Breastfeeding, body image, and weight control behavior among postpartum women	19
Asian versus Western appearance media influences and changes in body image concerns of young Chinese women: A 12-month prospective study	19
A look at the intergenerational associations between self-compassion, body esteem, and emotional eating within dyads of mothers and their adult daughters	19
Adolescents’ selfie-activities and idealized online self-presentation: An application of the sociocultural model	19
The Romanian version of the Intuitive Eating Scale-2: Assessment of its psychometric properties and gender invariance in Romanian adults	19
The effects of fitspiration images on body attributes, mood and eating behaviors: An experimental Ecological Momentary Assessment study in females	19
TikTok on the clock but the #fitspo don’t stop: The impact of TikTok fitspiration videos on women’s body image concerns	19
Body image and body change behaviors associated with orthorexia symptoms in males	18
Testing a self-compassion micro-intervention before appearance-based social media use: Implications for body image	18
A prospective examination of relationships between social media use and body dissatisfaction in a representative sample of adults	18
A quantitative systematic review assessing the impact of burn injuries on body image	18
Bidirectional relationships between intuitive eating and shape and weight overvaluation, dissatisfaction, preoccupation, and fear of weight gain: A prospective study	18
Assessing the impact of body image concerns on functioning across life domains: Development and validation of the Body Image Life Disengagement Questionnaire (BILD-Q) among British adolescents	18
#nomakeupselfie: The impact of natural no-makeup images and positive appearance comments on young women’s body image	18
Assessing the measurement invariance of two positive body image instruments in adults from Malaysia and the United Kingdom	17
Psychometric properties of an Italian translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS)	17
Demographic and sociocultural predictors of face image satisfaction: The U.S. Body Project I	17
Demographic and sociocultural predictors of sexuality-related body image and sexual frequency: The U.S. Body Project I	17
Internalized weight stigma and the progression of food addiction over time	17
Genital Self-Image in Adolescent Girls: The Effectiveness of a Brief Educational Video	17
Visual and cognitive processing of thin-ideal Instagram images containing idealized or disclaimer comments	17
Personality and body dissatisfaction: An updated systematic review with meta-analysis	17
Translation and validation of an Italian version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2	17
Self-compassion explains substantially more variance in eating disorder psychopathology and associated impairment than mindfulness	17
Body acceptance by others: Refinement of the construct, and development and psychometric evaluation of a revised measure – The Body Acceptance by Others Scale-2	17
A Randomised Controlled Trial Examining the Effects of Self-Compassion Meditations on Women’s Body Image	17
Sexual orientation differences in pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction: The U.S. Body Project I	16
TikTok, TikTok, the time is now: Future directions in social media and body image	16
Embodiment: Cultural and gender differences and associations with life satisfaction	16
Racial identity differences in pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction: The U.S. Body Project I	16
An examination of older men’s body image: How men 65 years and older perceive, experience, and cope with their aging bodies	16
The Positive Body Image among Adolescents Scale (PBIAS): Conceptualization, development, and psychometric evaluation among adolescents from Belgium	16
Dissonance-based eating disorder prevention among Brazilian young women: A randomized efficacy trial of the Body Project	16
Psychometric properties of a Romanian translation of the Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS)	16
Adolescent girls’ Instagram and TikTok use: Examining relations with body image-related constructs over time using random intercept cross-lagged panel models	16
Weight stigma, policy initiatives, and harnessing social media to elevate activism	15
Adverse childhood experiences and body dysmorphic symptoms: A meta-analysis	15
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 across five countries	15
“Pretty hurts”: Acceptance of hegemonic feminine beauty ideals and reduced sexual well-being among Black women	15
Self-concept clarity and appearance-based social comparison to idealized bodies	15
Nature exposure and positive body image: (Re-)examining the mediating roles of connectedness to nature and trait mindfulness	15
The effects of self-disclaimer Instagram captions on young women's mood and body image: The moderating effect of participants’ own photo manipulation practices	15
Eating disorder attitudes and disordered eating behaviors as measured by the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) among cisgender lesbian women	15
A cross-country examination of emotional eating, restrained eating and intuitive eating: Measurement Invariance across eight countries	15
TikTok use and body dissatisfaction: Examining direct, indirect, and moderated relations	15
Mothers’ experiences of the relationship between body image and exercise, 0–5 years postpartum: A qualitative study	15
Cultural adaptation and validation of the Body Esteem Scale for Adults and Adolescents for use in English among adolescents in urban India	15
Integrating social media variables as predictors, mediators, and moderators within body image frameworks: Potential mechanisms of action to consider in future research	14
Problematic muscularity-oriented behaviors: Overview, key gaps, and ideas for future research	14
Appearance Comparisons and Eating Pathology: A Moderated Serial Mediation Analysis Exploring Body Image Flexibility and Body Appreciation as Mediators and Self-Compassion as Moderator	14
‘Big boys don’t cry’: Examining the indirect pathway of masculinity discrepancy stress and muscle dysmorphia symptomatology through dimensions of emotion dysregulation	14
Weight stigma and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model of social identification and internalised bias	14
Hourglass Body Shape Ideal Scale and disordered eating	14
Characterizing a body positive online forum: Resistance and pursuit of appearance-ideals	14
Framing real beauty: A framing approach to the effects of beauty advertisements on body image and advertising effectiveness	13
Targets of comparison and body image in women’s everyday lives: The role of perceived attainability	13
Critical measurement issues in the assessment of social media influence on body image	13
Evaluating the impact of a brief Health at Every Size®-informed health promotion activity on body positivity and internalized weight-based oppression	13
Acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a school-based body image intervention in urban India: A pilot randomised controlled trial	13
Does self-compassion buffer the detrimental effect of body shame on depressive symptoms?	13
Integrating the tripartite influence, minority stress, and social comparison theories to explain body image and disordered eating in Chinese sexual minority men and women	13
Body-related self-conscious emotions and reasons for exercise: A latent class analysis	13
Do you see what I see? The influence of self-objectification on appearance anxiety, intrinsic motivation, interoceptive awareness, and physical performance	13
Consumer warning versus systemic change: The effects of including disclaimer labels on images that have or have not been digitally modified on body image	13
A systematic review of interventions aiming to promote positive body image in children and adolescents	13
Associations between adolescents’ pornography consumption and self-objectification, body comparison, and body shame	13
Australian health professionals’ perspectives of psychosocial adjustment to visible differences: A qualitative analysis of pediatric populations	13