Psychological concerns are frequently indexed by psychometric questionnaires but the mental representations that they seek to quantify are difficult to visualise. We used a set of questionnaires designed to measure men’s concept of their bodies including: the Drive for Muscularity Scale (DMS; McCreary & Sasse, 2000), the Perceived Sociocultural Pressures Scale (PSPS; Stice, Nemeroff, & Shaw, 1996a),…Continue Reading 3D visualisation of psychometric estimates for the ideal male body
Year: 2021
What colour should I wear? How clothing colour affects women’s judgement of other women’s body attractiveness and body size
Research has indicated that female body perception and associated body-viewing gaze behaviour in women viewers can be influenced by a variety of internal and external factors (e.g., own body satisfaction, clothing style, and viewing angle). Although the clothing colour affects women’s visual and aesthetic appearance rated by men or women wearer themselves, its impact on…Continue Reading What colour should I wear? How clothing colour affects women’s judgement of other women’s body attractiveness and body size
Rural gym spaces and masculine physical cultures in an ‘age of change’: Rurality, masculinity, inequalities and harm in ‘the gym
The gym is an increasing site for social research, with much work identifying the importance of understanding gender construction and performance in forming policy to address inequalities in gym access, and harms within gym-going cultures. This paper draws on findings from a multi-year ethnography in rural South-West England to address a gap in the existing…Continue Reading Rural gym spaces and masculine physical cultures in an ‘age of change’: Rurality, masculinity, inequalities and harm in ‘the gym
Voice, equality and education: the role of higher education in defining the political participation of young Europeans
Much attention has been paid by academics and policy-makers in recent decades to declining levels of voter turnout and engagement with traditional political and social institutions in established democracies. These trends are particularly marked amongst young people. Drawing on data from the European Social Survey, this article examines the role of higher education (HE) both…Continue Reading Voice, equality and education: the role of higher education in defining the political participation of young Europeans
Researching retired ex-servicemen: reflections on ethnographic encounters
The opportunities and challenges that younger, female, civilian researchers can encounter when undertaking ethnographic research with predominantly male military veterans are relatively underexplored sociologically. This is despite a growing literature on reflexivity in military studies over the past decade. To address this gap, we draw on symbolic interactionist insights to examine the reflective account of…Continue Reading Researching retired ex-servicemen: reflections on ethnographic encounters
Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address intractable social problems in the communities they represent. The relational nature of social procurement policies requires construction firms to develop new collaborative partnerships with organisations from the government, not-for-profit and community sectors….Continue Reading Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Facial first impressions form two clusters representing approach-avoidance
Existing models of facial first impressions indicate between two and four factors that underpin all social trait judgements. Here, we submitted several large databases of these first impression ratings to unsupervised learning algorithms with the aim of clustering together faces, rather than traits, to examine the ways in which impressions may be grouped together. Experiment…Continue Reading Facial first impressions form two clusters representing approach-avoidance
‘We are fighting a tide that keeps coming against us’: a mixed method exploration of stressors in an English county police force
Against a backdrop of austerity, this mixed method paper provides a contemporary understanding of stressors in English policing by examining stressors experienced by police employees in the UK. In the first study, police officers (n = 223) and police staff (n = 134) in a county police force in England completed measures of operational and organisational stressors. Significantly higher…Continue Reading ‘We are fighting a tide that keeps coming against us’: a mixed method exploration of stressors in an English county police force
Injury Incidence Across the Menstrual Cycle in International Footballers
With the professionalization of women’s football, training, and match demands have significantly increased in recent years (Datson et al., 2014, 2017). The overall injury incidence is similar to male football, although the proportion of severe injuries has been shown to be higher in women’s football (Mufty et al., 2015; Roos et al., 2017) which is associated with…Continue Reading Injury Incidence Across the Menstrual Cycle in International Footballers