ArticleDevelopmental psychology2019
Body dissatisfaction in adolescent boys.
Article in Developmental psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nutrition education and its relationship to body image and food intake in Asian young and adolescents: a systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Health-related quality of life in boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Trial
- A Latent Profile Analysis of Body Image and Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors in Adolescent Boys.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Gender-related differences in brace adherence among adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis.Spine deformity · 2026Article
- Article
- Declining BMI and possible associations with changing perceptions of masculinity in Japanese young males.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Body Image Group as Adjunct to Eating Disorder Treatment: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Early Outcomes.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Exploring mechanisms behind the increasing gender gap in adolescent psychological symptoms, 2002-2022: the role of national-level gender equality.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescents' mHealth App Use, Body Dissatisfaction, and Physical Self-Worth: Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Study.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Food insecurity and body dissatisfaction in a sample of Canadian adults.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Gender-based analysis of body dissatisfaction among youths in Singapore: findings from the National Youth Mental Health Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Body evaluation in men: the role of body weight dissatisfaction in appearance evaluation, eating, and muscle dysmorphia psychopathology.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Negative familial weight talk and weight bias internalization in a US sample of children and adolescents.Pediatric obesity · 2024Article
- Health Consequences of Familial Negative Weight Talk Across the Spectrum of Gender Diversity.Current nutrition reports · 2023Review
- Associations Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptom Dimensions and Disordered Eating Symptoms in Adolescence: A Population-Based Twin Study.Behavior genetics · 2023Article
- Body dissatisfaction and low self-esteem in elementary school-aged children: the role of media pressure and trust in parent-child relationships.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Secular trends in body image dissatisfaction and associated factors among adolescents (2007-2017/2018).PloS one · 2023Article
- Peer effects and health impacts of different body cognitive biases in children: micro evidence from China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Body Image Perception in Adolescents: The Role of Sports Practice and Sex.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Body-Related Attitudes, Personality, and Identity in Female Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa or Other Mental Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Body dissatisfaction is a significant mental health symptom present in adolescent girls and boys. However, it is often either disregarded in adolescent boys or examined using assessments that may not resonate with males. The present study addresses these issues, examining the manifestation, etiology, and correlates of 3 facets of body dissatisfaction in adolescent boys. Adolescent male twins aged 16- to 17-years-old from the Swedish Twin Study of Child and Adolescent Development were included along with a female comparison group: 915 monozygotic and 671 dizygotic same-sex twins. Body dissatisfaction was defined using measures of height dissatisfaction, muscle dissatisfaction, and the body dissatisfaction subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI-BD). We examined the prevalence of body dissatisfaction, whether the facets of body dissatisfaction were phenotypically and etiologically distinct, and associations with specific externalizing and internalizing symptoms. For boys, muscle dissatisfaction scores were greater than height dissatisfaction scores. Results also indicated that height and muscle dissatisfaction were phenotypically and etiologically distinct from the EDI-BD. Unique associations were observed with externalizing and internalizing symptoms: muscle dissatisfaction with symptoms of bulimia nervosa and the EDI-BD with internalizing symptoms, body mass index, and drive for thinness. The facets of body dissatisfaction were also largely distinct in girls and unique between-sex associations with externalizing and internalizing symptoms emerged. Overall, male-oriented aspects of body dissatisfaction are distinct from female-oriented aspects of body dissatisfaction. To capture the full picture of male body dissatisfaction, multiple facets must be addressed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.