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

在全球北方的一些国家，年轻人对身体不满和进食困难的担忧与日俱增，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是针对个别儿童的干预方法，反映了教授社会和情绪健康的主要方法，并侧重于个人能力和努力提高对身体形象压力的适应能力。在这种方法中，身体不满意被构建为个人的一个“问题”，从而掩盖了身体焦虑发展过程中涉及的结构性因素。相比之下，该项目采用后结构主义和社会批判的观点，采用跨学科、混合方法，在女孩和年轻妇女之间的友谊背景下调查身体、外表和健康监测。此外，该项目将让终端用户、进食障碍慈善机构和学校参与共同创建教育资源，重点是在友谊的背景下激发批判性思维和围绕以身体为中心的谈话进行讨论。这项研究旨在：*了解女孩和年轻女性是如何经历身体监测和以外表为中心的关于美丽、体重、食物和健身的讨论的。*审查个人主义的‘表演主义’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能够帮助激发以外表为中心的谈话和友谊背景下的实践的批判性思维。这项研究从跨国家的角度出发，同时关注了英国和瑞典的语境。将在瑞典马尔默大学的教育和社会学院进行一次海外研究访问，以获得对瑞典社会和情感健康教学的看法。这个项目有可能在几个方面带来显著的好处。通过采用以艺术为基础的、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探究、倾听、自我反省和理解，同时鼓励学生成为他们世界中的积极研究人员，质疑关于身体、美丽和健康的理所当然的假设。如果这些教育资源显示出希望，未来的研究可以调查它们的有效性，并有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这些资源。此外，如果发现以艺术为基础的方法和对医疗保健教育的社会批判性方法能够激发批判性思维和讨论，这种方法可以推广用于有关健康、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.