Understanding body image in physical education : current knowledge and future directions
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Das Körperbild im Sportunterricht verstehen : aktuelle Erkenntnisse und zukünftige Forschungsrichtungen |
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Autor: | Kerner, Charlotte; Haerens, Leen; Kirk, David |
Erschienen in: | European physical education review |
Veröffentlicht: | 24 (2018), 2, S. 255-265, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1356-336X, 1741-2749 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1356336X17692508 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201806004188 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
Body image disturbance in children and adolescents has negative implications for psychological and physical well-being. To positively impact well-being, it is important to explore factors that influence body image and to identify strategies that can be used to reduce body image disturbance. The school curriculum can play a significant role in shaping how children and adolescents experience their bodies. Within this school curriculum, physical education lessons represent one of the only school subjects in which the body is a focus of curricular outcomes. In physical education, the body is judged for physical ability but is also situated in a space that provides the potential for social comparisons and body judgements. Significant attention has been paid to the development of classroom-based interventions that aim at reducing body image disturbance, yet physical education has largely been ignored as a context in which one can effectively intervene. This paper reviews current knowledge on the relationship between physical education and body image disturbance by using the cognitive-behavioural model of body image developments as a guiding framework. It also considers the contribution that physical education could make to wider school-based interventions.