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dc.contributor.authorSwami, Viren
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Charlotte
dc.contributor.authorFurnham, Adrian
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T11:08:24Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T11:08:24Z
dc.date.created2021-12-03T12:19:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationBody image. 2021, 39 305-312.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1740-1445
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3092027
dc.description.abstractStudies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social physique anxiety. To overcome these gaps in the literature, we asked an online sample of 501 heterosexual emerging adults from the United Kingdom (age M = 21.16, 50.3% women) to complete measures of multidimensional body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety. Correlational analyses indicated that more negative body image and social physique anxiety were both significantly associated with greater dating anxiety. However, in hierarchical regressions, the variance accounted for by body image variables was largely non-significant and weak after accounting for the effects of social physique anxiety. In exploratory analyses, we found that social physique anxiety mediated the relationship between the body image facet of appearance orientation and dating anxiety. These results highlight the importance of developing targeted interventions to reduce social physique anxiety and unhealthy appearance orientation in heterosocial dating contexts.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleAssociations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adultsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber305-312en_US
dc.source.volume39en_US
dc.source.journalBody imageen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.10.004
dc.identifier.cristin1964226
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