It’s a surprise to no one that social and cultural pressures have a strong impact on body image among some adolescent girls. Peers, family and the media all send overt or subtle messages about the value of thinness, says Anna Bardone-Cone, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. “Yet this is a level of thinness that most females do not arrive at naturally, and thus many girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies,” she says. “We know less about these pressures, including from peers in school settings, among racial and ethnic minority adolescent girls, where the degree to which thinness is valued may differ,” she says.

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