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JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 550-561Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1359105314531468
Keywords
ageing; appearance; body image; health
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- Department of Psychology at The University of the West of England
- Vocational Training Charitable Trust
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Body dissatisfaction can be significantly detrimental to wellbeing. Little is known about older adults' body image, despite the fact that ageing causes unique bodily changes and that sociocultural pressures to resist these changes abound. We conducted six focus groups with a UK community sample of White British and South Asian older adults aged 65-92 years. Thematic analysis highlighted four themes: appearance indicates capability and identity; physical ability trumps appearance; felt pressures to age gracefully' while resisting appearance changes; and gender and cultural differences. These findings suggest that older adults' body image can have important implications for their wellbeing and merits researchers' attention.
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