title: Risk factors for body dissatisfaction in adolescent boys and girls: a prospective study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Despite evidence that body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of eating pathology and depression, few prospective studies have investigated predictors of body dissatisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined risk factors for body dissatisfaction using prospective data from 531 adolescent boys and girls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Elevations in body mass, negative affect, and perceived pressure to be thin from peers, but not thin-ideal internalization, social support deficits, or perceived pressure to be thin from family, dating partners, or media, predicted increases in body dissatisfaction. Gender moderated the effect of body mass on body dissatisfaction and revealed a significant quadratic component for boys, but not girls. Gender also moderated negative affect.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results support the assertion that certain sociocultural, biologic, and interpersonal factors increase the risk for body dissatisfaction, but differ for boys and girls. Results provided little support for other accepted risk factors for body dissatisfaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A8000, Austin, TX 78712, USA. presnell@mail.utexas.edu
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Presnell
authors.forename: Sarah Kate
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bearman
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stice
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D003863:Depression; D005195:Family Relations; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media; D010379:Peer Group; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support