Appearance Conversations and Body Image

09 March 2016

This study aims to track how often you talk about your appearance and the effects that might have on your body image.

The study has two components:
1. A baseline survey that takes 15 minutes to complete and is run online.
2. Regular mini-surveys delivered through a smartphone app. There are six per day for one week but each survey typically takes less than 1 minute to complete.

Keywords

• Deakin University
• body image
• body image dissatisfaction
• body image disturbance
• appearance
• fat talk
• body dissatisfaction
• smartphone
• Smartphone app
• women
• Conversations
• Psychology

Ethical approval

This study has been approved by Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee on 19/2/2015. The project number is 2013-175.

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