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Poor body image correlates with low self esteem and depression in midlife women

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It covers the response of women from various towns and cities located in the four regions in India, and employs a multi variable regression analysis to find the association between poor body image and self esteem and depression.

Perspectives

It has been widely believed that menopause and ageing does not negatively affect women belonging to traditional societies like India. The findings of this study disproves that.

Ruma Satwik
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

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This page is a summary of: Prevalence of poor body image and its correlation with self-esteem and depression in middle-aged women, Climacteric, January 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13697137.2023.2297876.
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