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Abigail Woodley

Health Psychology Student at UWE, UK; Former Research Assistant at Centre for Appearance Research, UWE, UK

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Exploring the relationship between young people, body dissatisfaction and aesthetic procedures

Body dissatisfaction—a discrepancy between one's appearance ideal (what they wish to look like to meet sociocultural standards of beauty) and actual appearance—is well documented in Western societies...

The role of body image in appearance-related cosmetic procedures

Body image may be best understood as a multidimensional mental process focused on one's physical appearance (Cash and Henry, 1995). Body dissatisfaction—a discrepancy between one's appearance ‘ideal’...

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