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A study, over 12 months, by the University of Washington of grade 7 and 10 girls and boys, researched ways that body dissatisfaction developed and how peer and social relations, psychological factors and body mass index contributed towards it. Results indicated that body dissatisfaction in girls resulted from appearance comparison, conversations with friends and body mass while boys internalized theirs via comparisons of themselves to muscular ideals. These findings appeared in 2004 in the journal of Developmental Psychology.

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