Caitlin Schmidt There was no shortage of entertainment options for University of Arizona students on a recent Tuesday night, but nearly 800 of them piled into Centennial Hall to listen to a pair of experts talk about body image resiliency.
People are also reading… Pressure, especially on young womenThe Kite sisters' campus talk was hosted by the UA's Pi Beta Phi sorority, after McKinley Severson, its vice president of community relations, saw Lindsay Kite in a TED Talk last semester. Chapter president Sidney Haigler said that while there's plenty of messaging about campus safety from physical dangers, there's not as much talk about other types of harm.
"You can be powerful, not in spite of what you've been through, not in spite of the disruptions you've faced and will continue to face, but because of them," Lexie Kite told the crowd."By naming your pain and by helping other people to be compassionate, by helping other people know they're not alone, by being vulnerable and opening up, you can be more. That is the nature of resilience.
UA professor Jennifer Stevens Aubrey has been working for years to understand body image and all the factors that affect how people view themselves. In 2019, Aubrey published a study in the Journal of Children and Media examining selfie behavior in adolescent girls and when it becomes concerning. "Body positivity can be kind of problematic from the research perspective. When you're telling women to love their bodies ... the unintended consequence is that you're telling them value is placed on their appearance," she said. "Body neutrality seems to have more positive potential, because it would really retrain girls to not think about their externally perceivable appearance, but rather their body's functionality.
White, Black and Asian American women who followed profiles with similar racial backgrounds to theirs experienced positive effects on body appreciation. "There are enough people in the know that are steering the conversation," she said."It makes me feel optimistic." The certificate program is 12 units and the minor is 18. Students take the same core classes for both, which will include courses in intuitive eating approaches to health and wellness; weight stigma, nutrition and health; and body positive concepts. Munro and others have designed electives for the program, but other departments have also found courses that fit into the framework and can be used as electives for credit, she said.
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