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Reducing adolescent girls’ concerns about SteM …
ilabs.uw.edu2011). Although adolescent girls may not confront negative STEM stereotypes daily (Ganley et al., 2013), girls are likely to eventually experience situations in which they must confront negative gender stereotypes, and teacher gender may be particularly influ - ential for girls in these situations. RIPS_3-4_2014.indd 82 16/01/15 17:49
Menstrual Health in India | Country Landscape Analysis
menstrualhygieneday.orgAdolescent girls are particularly vulnerable in the states of UP and Bihar, with over half of all adolescent girls married before the age of 18, up to 95% dropping out of schools and over 50% facing domestic violence. 18 i. The Role and Influence of …
Risk Factors for Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescent Girls ...
www.ori.organd affective factors predicted increases in body dissatisfaction using longitudinal data from adolescent girls (N 496). Elevated adiposity, perceived pressure to be thin, thin-ideal internalization, and social support deficits predicted increases in body dissatisfaction, but early menarche, weight-related teasing, and depression did not.
Fact sheet Body Image - Confident Body Confident Child
www.confidentbody.netbeliefs about body image are frequently shaped during late childhood and adolescence so this is a particularly crucial time • Gender - adolescent girls are more prone to body image dissatisfaction than adolescent boys; however the rates of body dissatisfaction in males is rapidly approaching that of females
Sexual Objectification © The Authors 2011 of Women ...
www.apa.orgfemales in general among African American adolescent girls (Gordon, 2008) and to self-objectification, body shame, appearance anxiety, internalization of cultural standards of beauty, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating symptoms among predominately White women (for a review, see Moradi & Huang, 2008). Szymanski et al. 11
ADOLESCENT WELLBEING AND MENTAL HEALTH
www.unicef.orgmonitoring child marriages have estimated that globally, additional 4 million girls are at risk of child marriage in the next two years due to the COVID-19 crisis.2 » Unmarried adolescent girls and women typically experience challenges in accessing sexual and reproductive health care (SRH) services.