Outputs (68)

Trying to fall asleep while catastrophising: What sleep-disordered adolescents think and feel (2014)
Journal Article

Objective: Catastrophising is a repetitive cognitive process related to sleep disturbance in adult insomnia patients. More recently catastrophising has been associated with increased sleep disturbances in community samples of children and adolescents... Read More about Trying to fall asleep while catastrophising: What sleep-disordered adolescents think and feel.

"Appearance potent"? A content analysis of UK gay and straight men's magazines (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014. With little actual appraisal, a more 'appearance potent' (i.e., a reverence for appearance ideals) subculture has been used to explain gay men's greater body dissatisfaction in comparison to straight men's. This study sought to assess the res... Read More about "Appearance potent"? A content analysis of UK gay and straight men's magazines.

Directing gaze: The effect of disclaimer labels on women's visual attention to fashion magazine advertisements (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. In an effort to combat the known negative effects of exposure to unrealistic thin ideal images, there is increasing worldwide pressure on fashion, media and advertising industries to disclose when images have been digitally alter... Read More about Directing gaze: The effect of disclaimer labels on women's visual attention to fashion magazine advertisements.

'Retouch free': The effect of labelling media images as not digitally altered on women's body dissatisfaction (2014)
Journal Article

This study aimed to investigate the effect of 'retouch free' labels on thin ideal fashion images on women's body dissatisfaction. This represents an experimental analogue to current practice by some fashion magazines. Participants were 224 female und... Read More about 'Retouch free': The effect of labelling media images as not digitally altered on women's body dissatisfaction.

NetTweens: The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls (2014)
Journal Article

The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between media exposure and body image concerns in preteenage girls, with a particular focus on the Internet. A sample of 189 girls (aged 10-12 years) completed questionnaire measures of media consu... Read More about NetTweens: The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls.

NetGirls: The internet, facebook, and body image concern in adolescent girls (2013)
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Objective The primary aim of the study was to examine the relationship between Internet exposure and body image concern in adolescent girls, with a particular focus on the social networking site of Facebook. Method A sample of 1,087 girls in the firs... Read More about NetGirls: The internet, facebook, and body image concern in adolescent girls.

The effect of beverages varying in glycaemic load on postprandial glucose responses, appetite and cognition in 10-12-year-old school children (2013)
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Reducing glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) inconsistently improves aspects of cognitive function and appetite in children. Whether altering the GL by lowering carbohydrate relative to protein and fat has a role in these effects is unknown.... Read More about The effect of beverages varying in glycaemic load on postprandial glucose responses, appetite and cognition in 10-12-year-old school children.

Rewards can be used effectively with repeated exposure to increase liking of vegetables in 4-6-year-old children (2013)
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Abstract Objective To examine whether parents offering a sticker reward to their child to taste a vegetable the child does not currently consume is associated with improvements in children's liking and consumption of the vegetable. Design A randomize... Read More about Rewards can be used effectively with repeated exposure to increase liking of vegetables in 4-6-year-old children.

Disclaimer labels on fashion magazine advertisements: Effects on social comparison and body dissatisfaction (2013)
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Recent proposals across a number of Western countries have suggested that idealised media images should carry some sort of disclaimer informing readers when these images have been digitally enhanced. The present studies aimed to experimentally invest... Read More about Disclaimer labels on fashion magazine advertisements: Effects on social comparison and body dissatisfaction.

Ingesting breakfast meals of different glycaemic load does not alter cognition and satiety in children (2012)
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Background/Objectives: The effect of Glycaemic Index (GI) and Load (GL) of breakfasts on satiety and aspects of cognitive function in children is inconclusive. We aimed to assess if isocaloric breakfasts differing in GL (by replacing high-GI carbohyd... Read More about Ingesting breakfast meals of different glycaemic load does not alter cognition and satiety in children.