Behind the mirror: An exploration of the Tripartite Influence Model among Italian adolescent boys and girls DOI Creative Commons
Sara Iannattone, Silvia Cerea, Marco Lauriola

et al.

Body Image, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 53, P. 101892 - 101892

Published: April 18, 2025

Body image concerns and eating disorder (ED) symptoms are increasingly common among adolescents, highlighting the importance of discerning their risk factors. One main frameworks explaining development body eating-related issues is Tripartite Influence Model (TIM); however, adolescent research examining this model remains scarce mainly limited to female individuals. Therefore, study aimed test original TIM in a sample 788 Italian students (59 % girls) aged 13-19 years. They completed self-report tools assessing appearance-related sociocultural pressures, general attractiveness-ideal internalization, appearance comparison frequency, shame, ED symptoms. Path analysis was employed overall sample, followed by multigroup biological sex. The results showed that, both groups, family pressure linked shame directly via shame; neither internalization nor comparisons mediated these relations. Peer associated with but not internalization. Media related indirectly through shame. In girls, significant relations between symptoms, as well media also emerged. practical implications discussed, especially regarding culturally sensitive prevention programs.

Language: Английский

Behind the mirror: An exploration of the Tripartite Influence Model among Italian adolescent boys and girls DOI Creative Commons
Sara Iannattone, Silvia Cerea, Marco Lauriola

et al.

Body Image, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 53, P. 101892 - 101892

Published: April 18, 2025

Body image concerns and eating disorder (ED) symptoms are increasingly common among adolescents, highlighting the importance of discerning their risk factors. One main frameworks explaining development body eating-related issues is Tripartite Influence Model (TIM); however, adolescent research examining this model remains scarce mainly limited to female individuals. Therefore, study aimed test original TIM in a sample 788 Italian students (59 % girls) aged 13-19 years. They completed self-report tools assessing appearance-related sociocultural pressures, general attractiveness-ideal internalization, appearance comparison frequency, shame, ED symptoms. Path analysis was employed overall sample, followed by multigroup biological sex. The results showed that, both groups, family pressure linked shame directly via shame; neither internalization nor comparisons mediated these relations. Peer associated with but not internalization. Media related indirectly through shame. In girls, significant relations between symptoms, as well media also emerged. practical implications discussed, especially regarding culturally sensitive prevention programs.

Language: Английский

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