Body, appearance, and health surveillance in female youth friendship contexts

在全球北方的一些国家，对年轻人身体不满和饮食困扰的日益关注导致制定了以学校为基础的干预措施，以促进积极的身体形象。最广泛使用的干预方法反映了社会和情感健康教育的主导方法，针对个别儿童，并侧重于提高对身体形象压力的适应力的个人能力和努力。在这种方法中，身体的不满被构造为一个“问题”的个人，从而掩盖了结构性因素参与发展的身体焦虑。与此相反，本项目采用后结构主义和社会批判的观点，调查身体，外观，健康监测女孩和年轻妇女之间的友谊的背景下，使用跨学科，混合方法的方法。此外，该项目将让最终用户、饮食失调慈善机构和学校参与共同创建教育资源，重点是在友谊背景下围绕以身体为中心的谈话激发批判性思维和讨论。本研究旨在：* 了解身体监测和外观为中心的谈话围绕美丽，体重，食物，和健身是由女孩和年轻女性经历。* 研究个人主义的“表演”文化如何影响女孩和年轻妇女的判断和比较做法。* 调查教育资源在多大程度上，通过社会批判的方法，可以帮助刺激周围的外观为中心的谈话和做法在友谊背景下的批判性思维。以跨国的角度来看，研究的重点是英国和瑞典的情况下。将在瑞典马尔默大学教育与社会学院进行海外研究访问，以了解瑞典社会和情感健康教学的观点。该项目有可能在几个方面产生重大效益。通过采取以艺术为基础的，社会批判性的方法来开发教育资源，这些资源将旨在促进批判性的探究，倾听，自我反思和理解，同时鼓励学生成为他们世界中的积极研究者，并质疑对身体，美丽和健康的理所当然的假设。如果教育资源显示出希望，未来的研究可以调查其有效性，并可能通过饮食失调组织和教育慈善机构向英国和瑞典的教育工作者提供资源。此外，如果发现基于艺术的方法和社会批判的医疗保健教育方法可以激发批判性思维和讨论，这种方法可以推广用于围绕健康、社会和情感健康的广泛教育。

In a number of countries in the global North, growing concerns about body dissatisfaction and eating distress among young people have resulted in the development of school-based interventions to promote positive body image. Reflecting the dominant approach to teaching about social and emotional wellbeing the most widely used intervention approach targets the individual child and focuses on individual capacity and effort in improving resilience to body image pressures. In this approach, body dissatisfaction is constructed as a 'problem' of the individual, thus obscuring the structural factors involved in the development of body anxieties. In contrast, this project adopts a poststructuralist and socio-critical perspective, investigating body, appearance, and health monitoring in friendship contexts between girls and young women, using an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach. Further, the project will involve end-users, eating disorder charities and schools in the co-creation of educational resources focused on stimulating critical thinking and discussion around body-centred talk in friendship contexts. This research aims to: * Understand how body monitoring and appearance-centred talk around beauty, weight, food, and fitness are experienced by girls and young women. * Examine how the 'performative' culture of individualism impacts on practices of judgement and comparison among girls and young women. * Investigate the extent to which educational resources, informed by a socio-critical approach, can help stimulate critical thinking around appearance-centred talk and practices in friendship contexts. Taking a trans-national perspective, the research focuses on both a British and Swedish context. An overseas research visit at the faculty of Education and Society at Malmö University in Sweden will be undertaken, to gain perspective on teaching about social and emotional wellbeing in Sweden. This project has the potential to be of significant benefit in several ways. By taking an art-based, socio-critical approach to develop educational resources, the resources will aim to promote critical inquiry, listening, self-reflection and understanding, whilst encouraging students to become active researchers in their worlds and question taken-for-granted assumptions about bodies, beauty, and health. If the educational resources demonstrate promise, future research can investigate their effectiveness and potentially make the resources available to educators across the UK and Sweden via eating disorder organisations and education charities. Further, if arts-based methodologies and a socio-critical approach to healthcare education are found to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, this approach can be promoted for use in a wide range of education around health and social and emotional wellbeing.