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The construction of the adolescent male body through sport
Lina A Ricciardelli1, Marita P McCabe, Damien Ridge
1School of Psychology, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. lina@deakin.edu.au
Abstract:
The present study examined the role played by sport in understanding adolescent males' views about their body. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 adolescent boys aged between 15 and 17 years. An inductive thematic analysis of boys' narratives showed that sport provided adolescent males with a context for discussing their body image. Attributes which males liked about their body were synonymous with those associated with being successful at sport. In addition, sport was used as a forum for competing with other males both through playing sport and by using sport performance to make favourable social comparisons about their body size.
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