Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport researchers including Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, director of the Tucker Center and senior lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, and colleagues at the Center for Appearance Research recently published an article. The article titled “A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions that target the intersection of body image and movement among girls and women” was published in the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

The study examined the effectiveness of interventions that targeted body image and movement experiences among girls and women. It was found that current interventions were effective at eliciting small, but unsustained improvements in girls’ and women’s body image and fitness outcomes, and ineffective at improving behavioral movement outcomes, and that collective change needs to occur for both body image and movement research fields to create effective interventions.