Body image, physical beauty and colour among Jamaican adolescents
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| dc.contributor.author | Miller, Errol L. | |
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-18T16:56:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-18T16:56:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | Mar. 1969 | |
| dc.description | Reprinted in Christine Barrow and Rhoda Reddock (eds.), Caribbean sociology: Introductory readings (pp. 305-319). Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2001 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This investigation examined the way in which a group of urban Jamaican adolescents perceived their bodies and conceived of physical beauty in relation to their actual skin colour. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 475 secondary school students from three secondary schools--two high schools and one junior secondary--in the Corporate Area of Kingston, in the 11-15 year age range. Results of the data analysis showed that: 1) a common concept of beauty--masculine and feminine--appeared to be shared by all the subjects of the different colour groups; 2) no preference was found for white skin colour, however, subjects of all colour groups expressed preference and positive cathexis for typical Caucasian features; 3) subjects' cathexis of their body image is determined by the closeness of their actual body features to the Caucasian stereotype generally accepted as their ideal; and 4) the most important features of the body image are of two types, those most obviously affected by growth, the developmental features--hands, legs, toes, feet--and those of social significance, the racial features--hair, nose, colour, and eyes | |
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| dc.extent | pp. 72-89 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 119 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/52223 | |
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| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Social and Economic Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | vol. 18 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | no. 1 | |
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| dc.source.uri | School of Education Library, UWISA - WI SERIALS | |
| dc.subject.other | Adolescents | |
| dc.title | Body image, physical beauty and colour among Jamaican adolescents | |
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