Professor Lynda Boothroyd's Outputs (2)

Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults (2023)
Journal Article
Andres, F. E., Thornborrow, T., Bowie, W. N., Chamorro, A. M., De la Rosa, G., Evans, E. H., Fontalvo Acuña, L. S., Kolar, D. R., Mebarak, M. R., Tovar Castro, J. C., & Boothroyd, L. G. (2023). Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults. Journal of eating disorders, 11(1), Article 219. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00942-5

Background: Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a growing concern in Latin America; reliable and culturally appropriate scales are necessary to support body image research in Spanish speaking Latin American countries. We sought to validate a Latin-American... Read More about Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults.

Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles (2023)
Journal Article
Cross, C. P., Boothroyd, L. G., & Jefferson, C. A. (2023). Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221346

The causes of sex differences in human behaviour are contested, with ‘evolutionary’ and ‘social’ explanations often being pitted against each other in the literature. Recent work showing positive correlations between indices of gender equality and th... Read More about Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles.