Dancing Toward Positive Body Image? Examining Body-Related Constructs with Ballet and Contemporary Dancers at Different Levels

American Journal of Dance Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-52

  Swami, Viren ^a,b   Harris, Amy Sunshine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HELP UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ballet; Body appreciation; Body image; Body weight discrepancy; Contemporary dance; Dance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862143061     PISSN: 01463721     EISSN: 15733262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10465-012-9129-7     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Abraham, S. (1996a). Characteristics of eating disorders among young ballet dancers. Psychopathology, 29, 223-229.
2. Abraham, S. (1996b). Eating and weight controlling behaviours of young ballet dancers. Psychopathology, 29, 218-222.
3. Ackard, D. M., Henderson, J. B., & Wonderlich, A. L. (2004). The association between childhood dance participation and adult disordered eating related psychopathology. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 57, 485-490.
4. Anshel, M. H. (2004). Sources of disordered eating patterns between ballet dancers and non-dancers. Journal of Sport Behavior, 27, 115-133.
5. Avalos, L., Tylka, T. L., & Wood-Barcalow, N. (2005). The body appreciation scale: Development and psychometric evaluation. Body Image, 2, 285-297.
6. Bettle, N. K., & Bettle, N. U. (2003). Age and gender related psychological characteristics of adolescent ballet dancers. Psychopathology, 33, 137-142.
7. Brewer, B. W., VanRaalte, J. L., & Linder, D. E. (1993). Athletic identity: Hercules' muscles or Achilles heel? International Journal of Sport Psychology, 24, 237-254.
8. Burgess, G., Grogan, S., & Burwitz, L. (2006). Effects of a 6-week aerobic dance intervention on body image and physical self-perception in adolescent girls. Body Image, 3, 57-66.
9. Cash, T. F. (2004). Body image: Past, present, and future. Body Image, 1, 1-5.
10. Cash, T. F., Maikkula, C. L. & Yamamiya, Y. (2004). Baring the body in the bedroom: Body image, sexual schemas, and sexual functioning among college women and men. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 7. Retrieved 27 April 2009, from http://www. ejhs. org/volume7/bodyimage. html.
11. Daniels, E., Sincharoen, S., & Leaper, C. (2005). The relationship between sport orientation and athletic identity among adolescent girl and boy athletes. Journal of Sport Behavior, 28, 315-332.
12. Daubenmier, J. J. (2005). The relationship of yoga, body awareness, and body responsiveness to self-objectification and disordered eating. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 29, 207-219.
13. Dibbell-Hope, S. (2000). The use of dance/movement therapy in psychological adaptation to breast cancer. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 27, 51-68.
14. Downey, D., Reel, J., SooHoo, S., & Zerbib, S. (2010). Body image in belly dance: Integrating alternative norms into collective identity. Journal of Gender Studies, 19, 377-393.
15. Erfer, T., & Ziv, A. (2006). Moving towards cohesion: Group dance/movement therapy with children in psychiatry. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 33, 238-246.
16. Goldstein, A. C. (2003). The roads are bumpy ones: A study of body image through abstract performance. Masters thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University.
17. Goodill, S. (2005). An introduction to medical dance/movement therapy: Health care in motion. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
18. Keery, H., van den Berg, P., & Thompson, J. K. (2004). An evaluation of the Tripartite Influence Model of body dissatisfaction and eating disturbance with adolescent girls. Body Image, 1, 237-251.
19. Langdon, S. W., & Petracca, G. (2010). Tiny dancer: Body image and dancer identity in female modern dancers. Body Image, 7, 360-363.
20. Lippin, R. A., & Micozzi, M. S. (2006). Arts therapy. In M. S. Micozzi (Ed.), Fundamentals of complementary and integrative medicine (3rd ed., pp. 332-350). St. Louis, MO: Saunders.
21. Neumark-Sztainer, D., Paxton, S. J., Hannan, P. J., Haines, J., & Story, M. (2006). Does body satisfaction matter? Five-year longitudinal associations between body satisfaction and health behaviors in adolescent females and males. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 244-251.
22. Olson, M. S., Williford, H. N., Richards, L. A., Brown, J. A., & Pugh, S. (1996). Self-reports on the eating disorder inventory by female aerobic instructors. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82, 1051-1058.
23. Pierce, E. F., & Daleng, M. L. (1998). Distortion of body image among elite female dancers. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 87, 769-770.
24. Price, B. P., & Pettijohn, T. F. (2006). The effect of ballet dance attire on body and self-perceptions of female dancers. Social Behavior and Personality, 34, 991-998.
25. Pylvänäinen, P. (2003). Body image: A tripatite model for use in dance/movement therapy. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 25, 39-55.
26. Radell, S. A., Adame, D. D., & Cole, S. P. (2002). Effect of teaching with a mirror on body image and locus of control in women ballet dancers. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 95, 1239-1247.
27. Ravaldi, C., Vannacci, A., Bolognesi, E., Stafania, M., Faravelli, C., & Ricca, V. (2006). Gender role, eating disorder symptoms, and body image concern in ballet dancers. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 529-535.
28. Ringham, R., Klump, K., Kaye, W., Stone, D., Libman, S., Stowe, S., & Marcus, M. (2006). Eating disorder symptomatology among ballet dancers. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 503-508.
29. Rodin, J., Silberstein, L., & Striegel-Moore, R. (1984). Women and weight: A normative discontent. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 32, 267-307.
30. Rubin, L. S., Nemeroff, C. J., & Russo, N. F. (2004). Exploring feminist women's body consciousness. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28, 27-37.
31. Sandel, S. L., Judge, J. O., Landry, N., Faria, L., Ouellette, R., & Majczak, M. (2005). Dance and movement program improves quality-of-life measures in breast cancer survivors. Cancer Nursing, 28, 301-309.
32. Shields, S., Mallory, M., & Simon, A. (1989). The body awareness questionnaire: Reliability and validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 53, 802-815.
33. Smolak, L. (2006). Body image. In J. Worell & C. D. Goodheart (Eds.), Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health: Gender and well-being across the lifespan. Oxford series in clinical psychology (pp. 69-76). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
34. Smolak, L., Murnen, S. K., & Ruble, A. E. (2000). Female athletes and eating problems: A meta-analysis. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 27, 371-380.
35. Stice, E., & Shaw, H. E. (2002). Role of body dissatisfaction in the onset and maintenance of eating pathology: A synthesis of research findings. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 53, 985-993.
36. Swami, V., Airs, N., Chouhan, B., Padilla Leon, M. A., & Towell, T. (2009a). Are there ethnic differences in positive body image among female British undergraduates? European Psychologist, 14, 288-296.
37. Swami, V., Frederick, D. A., Aavik, T., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Anderson, D., & Zivcic-Becirevic, I. (2010). Body weight ideals and body dissatisfaction in 26 countries across 10 world regions: Results of the International Body Project I. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 309-325.
38. Swami, V., Hadji-Michael, M., & Furnham, A. (2008a). Personality and individual difference correlates of positive body image. Body Image, 5, 322-325.
39. Swami, V., Salem, N., Furnham, A., & Tovée, M. J. (2008b). The influence of feminist ascription on judgements of women's physical attractiveness. Body Image, 5, 224-229.
40. Swami, V., Salem, N., Furnham, A., & Tovée, M. J. (2008c). Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 1752-1761.
41. Swami, V., Steadman, L., & Tovée, M. J. (2009b). A comparison of body size ideals, body dissatisfaction, and media influence between female track athletes, martial artists, and non-athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10, 609-614.
42. Swami, V., Stieger, S., Harris, A. M., Nader, I. W., Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Tovée, M. J. (In press). Further investigation of the validity and reliability of the photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment.
43. Swami, V., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., & Voracek, M. (2008d). German translation and psychometric evaluation of body appreciation scale. Body Image, 5, 122-127.
44. Swami, V., & Tovée, M. J. (2009). A comparison of body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and media influences between street-dancers and non-dancers. Body Image, 6, 304-307.
45. Thomas, J. (2005). Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in ballet students: Examination of environmental and individual risk factors. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 38, 263-268.
46. Tiggemann, M., & Slater, A. (2001). A test of objectification theory in former dancers and non-dancers. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25, 57-64.