Elissa Koff
Biographic Data
| ID | 5709669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elissa Koff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Koff |
| SIGNATURE | KOFF E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How conception risk affects competition and cooperation with attractive women and men
Sexual Orientation and Shifts in Preferences for a Partner's Body Attributes in Short-Term versus Long-Term Mating Contexts
This study assessed the effects of short- and long-term mating contexts on preferences for body characteristics of potential relationship partners in lesbians and heterosexual women. Lesbians (n = 41) rated figure drawings and computer-generated images of women that varied in body fat, waist-to-hip ratio, and breast size; heterosexual women (n = 95) rated computer-generated images of men that varied in muscularity and body fat. Both lesbians and …
Pilot Study of Relationship between Fertility Risk and Bargaining
Competition for resources to support a healthy pregnancy and later offspring was likely very important for ancestral women. Therefore, it was predicted that women evolved a propensity for intrasexual competition over resources during times of their highest conception risk. To investigate this hypothesis, women played a series of ultimatum games, bargaining games that test participants' willingness to share a monetary stake. During periods of high…
Body-Image Attitudes and Psychosocial Functioning in Euro-American and Asian-American College Women
Euro-American (n = 94) and Asian-American (n = 72) college women were compared on multiple dimensions of body image, including global body satisfaction, preoccupation with appearance, satisfaction with individual body parts or features, and weight concern, and psychosocial functioning, including self-esteem, public self-consciousness, social anxiety, and public body consciousness. Both groups reported similar scores on these variables and showed …
Continuity of styles in the drawings of adolescent girls
Individual styles in girlS' drawings over a four-year period were discernible across six-month intervals but not when the interval spanned menarche, indicating a discontinuity in style related to maturation in other developmental domains
Breast Size Perception and Satisfaction, Body Image, and Psychological Functioning in Caucasian and Asian American College Women
Depressive symptomatology among very early maturing girls
Gender, Body Image, and Self-Concept in Early Adolescence
Structure and valuation of body image and the relationship between body image and self-concept were examined in 169 ninth-grade males and females. Three specific hypotheses were tested: (a) that females would have more differentiated body images than males; (b) that males would value their bodies more than females; and (c) that the degree of relationship between valuation of body image and self-concept would be stronger for females than for males…
Developmental Differences in Menstrual Attitudes
Methodological limitations, both conceptual and statistical, have impeded the investigation of developmental differences in menstrual attitudes. In this study, these methodological problems were addressed in an effort to clarify whether group differences associated with two developmental variables -age and menarcheal status -were related to differences in the attitudes toward menstruation held by early adolescent girls. Findings were that young a…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Body Image as a Predictor of the Onset and Persistence of Adolescent Girls' Depression
The importance of body image in early adolescent girls' depression was evaluated in a longitudinal study. Depression scores of over 500 girls were assessed twice, in the fall (TI) and spring (T2) of a school year, and four subject groups were identified: Persistent Depressed (depressed at Ti and T2); Remitting Depressed (depressed at Ti, nondepressed at T2); Onset Depressed (nondepressed at Ti, depressed at T2); and Stable Nondepressed (nondepres…
Gender, Depression, and Body Image in Early Adolescents
As clinicians and researchers have begun to document the prevalence of depressive symptomatology among children and adolescents, efforts are being undertaken to identify correlates, and possible determinants, of depressive disorders occurring before adulthood. With this aim, a study was undertaken to assess the relation between depression and body image in a sample of ninth grade boys and girls. Findings were that (a) depressed adolescents-both b…
Timing of menarche, preparation, and initial menstrual experience: Replication and further analyses in a prospective study
Depressive Symptomatology and Body Image in Adolescent Girls
Depression is increasingly being recognized as a significant problem among adolescents. With documentation of its prevalence in clinic and non-clinic samples, researchers are beginning to identify correlates and possible risk factors. To that end, this study assesses the relationship between depression, indicated by scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, and two measures of body image in a sample of over 500 early adolescent girls attending pub…
Timing of menarche and initial menstrual experience
Left‐handers and right‐handers compared on performance and preference measures of lateral dominance
Ninety‐three right‐handed and 53 left‐handed adults were compared on a range of performance and preference measures of handedness and footedness. Performance measures included tests of accuracy, speed, and strength. Non‐parametric statistical procedures were used to determine whether left‐handers (LHs) were less lateralized than right‐handers (RHs), and whether distributions for LHs were the mirror images of those for RHs. On performance measures…
Memories of menarche: Age, preparation, and prior knowledge as determinants of initial menstrual experience
Enactment vs Picture-Choice Tasks in Studies of Early Language Comprehension: When a Picture is Not Worth 10,000 Words
18 children aged 3, 4, and 5 yr. responded to the same sentence presented both for enactment and for picture choice. Sentences were designed to test the effects on comprehension of event probability, sentence voice, and subject/object animateness. All main effects including that of task were significant. Picture choice was more difficult than enactment especially for the youngest children. Other interactions involving the effects of task suggeste…
The psychological impact of menarche: Integrative versus disruptive changes
Representation of the female body by early and late adolescent girls
Sex-Stereotyping of Children's Judgments of Academic Success
Sex-Stereotyping of Children's Success in Mathematics and Reading
Fifth and sixth graders' evaluations of the social attractiveness of boys and girls who were described as highly successful in either mathematics or reading were explored. A rating scale was employed to determine the extent to which subjects thought that a boy, girl, good friend, and teacher liked a fictitious boy or girl who was labeled either the best mathematics or reading student in the class. Perceived likeability was significantly influence…
Changes in representation of body image as a function of menarcheal status
Changes in representation of body image as a function of menarcheal status
Gender, Body Image, and Self-Concept in Early Adolescence
Structure and valuation of body image and the relationship between body image and self-concept were examined in 169 ninth-grade males and females. Three specific hypotheses were tested: (a) that females would have more differentiated body images than males; (b) that males would value their bodies more than females; and (c) that the degree of relationship between valuation of body image and self-concept would be stronger for females than for males…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Body Image as a Predictor of the Onset and Persistence of Adolescent Girls' Depression
The importance of body image in early adolescent girls' depression was evaluated in a longitudinal study. Depression scores of over 500 girls were assessed twice, in the fall (TI) and spring (T2) of a school year, and four subject groups were identified: Persistent Depressed (depressed at Ti and T2); Remitting Depressed (depressed at Ti, nondepressed at T2); Onset Depressed (nondepressed at Ti, depressed at T2); and Stable Nondepressed (nondepres…
Depressive Symptomatology and Body Image in Adolescent Girls
Depression is increasingly being recognized as a significant problem among adolescents. With documentation of its prevalence in clinic and non-clinic samples, researchers are beginning to identify correlates and possible risk factors. To that end, this study assesses the relationship between depression, indicated by scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, and two measures of body image in a sample of over 500 early adolescent girls attending pub…
Memories of menarche: Age, preparation, and prior knowledge as determinants of initial menstrual experience
Gender, Depression, and Body Image in Early Adolescents
As clinicians and researchers have begun to document the prevalence of depressive symptomatology among children and adolescents, efforts are being undertaken to identify correlates, and possible determinants, of depressive disorders occurring before adulthood. With this aim, a study was undertaken to assess the relation between depression and body image in a sample of ninth grade boys and girls. Findings were that (a) depressed adolescents-both b…
The psychological impact of menarche: Integrative versus disruptive changes
Breast Size Perception and Satisfaction, Body Image, and Psychological Functioning in Caucasian and Asian American College Women
Depressive symptomatology among very early maturing girls
Developmental Differences in Menstrual Attitudes
Methodological limitations, both conceptual and statistical, have impeded the investigation of developmental differences in menstrual attitudes. In this study, these methodological problems were addressed in an effort to clarify whether group differences associated with two developmental variables -age and menarcheal status -were related to differences in the attitudes toward menstruation held by early adolescent girls. Findings were that young a…
Timing of menarche and initial menstrual experience
Representation of the female body by early and late adolescent girls
Timing of menarche, preparation, and initial menstrual experience: Replication and further analyses in a prospective study
Sex-Stereotyping of Children's Judgments of Academic Success
Sex-Stereotyping of Children's Success in Mathematics and Reading
Fifth and sixth graders' evaluations of the social attractiveness of boys and girls who were described as highly successful in either mathematics or reading were explored. A rating scale was employed to determine the extent to which subjects thought that a boy, girl, good friend, and teacher liked a fictitious boy or girl who was labeled either the best mathematics or reading student in the class. Perceived likeability was significantly influence…
Changes in representation of body image as a function of menarcheal status
Enactment vs Picture-Choice Tasks in Studies of Early Language Comprehension: When a Picture is Not Worth 10,000 Words
18 children aged 3, 4, and 5 yr. responded to the same sentence presented both for enactment and for picture choice. Sentences were designed to test the effects on comprehension of event probability, sentence voice, and subject/object animateness. All main effects including that of task were significant. Picture choice was more difficult than enactment especially for the youngest children. Other interactions involving the effects of task suggeste…
The psychological impact of menarche: Integrative versus disruptive changes
Representation of the female body by early and late adolescent girls
Memories of menarche: Age, preparation, and prior knowledge as determinants of initial menstrual experience
Left‐handers and right‐handers compared on performance and preference measures of lateral dominance
Ninety‐three right‐handed and 53 left‐handed adults were compared on a range of performance and preference measures of handedness and footedness. Performance measures included tests of accuracy, speed, and strength. Non‐parametric statistical procedures were used to determine whether left‐handers (LHs) were less lateralized than right‐handers (RHs), and whether distributions for LHs were the mirror images of those for RHs. On performance measures…
Timing of menarche and initial menstrual experience
Depressive Symptomatology and Body Image in Adolescent Girls
Depression is increasingly being recognized as a significant problem among adolescents. With documentation of its prevalence in clinic and non-clinic samples, researchers are beginning to identify correlates and possible risk factors. To that end, this study assesses the relationship between depression, indicated by scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, and two measures of body image in a sample of over 500 early adolescent girls attending pub…
Gender, Depression, and Body Image in Early Adolescents
As clinicians and researchers have begun to document the prevalence of depressive symptomatology among children and adolescents, efforts are being undertaken to identify correlates, and possible determinants, of depressive disorders occurring before adulthood. With this aim, a study was undertaken to assess the relation between depression and body image in a sample of ninth grade boys and girls. Findings were that (a) depressed adolescents-both b…
Timing of menarche, preparation, and initial menstrual experience: Replication and further analyses in a prospective study
Developmental Differences in Menstrual Attitudes
Methodological limitations, both conceptual and statistical, have impeded the investigation of developmental differences in menstrual attitudes. In this study, these methodological problems were addressed in an effort to clarify whether group differences associated with two developmental variables -age and menarcheal status -were related to differences in the attitudes toward menstruation held by early adolescent girls. Findings were that young a…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Body Image as a Predictor of the Onset and Persistence of Adolescent Girls' Depression
The importance of body image in early adolescent girls' depression was evaluated in a longitudinal study. Depression scores of over 500 girls were assessed twice, in the fall (TI) and spring (T2) of a school year, and four subject groups were identified: Persistent Depressed (depressed at Ti and T2); Remitting Depressed (depressed at Ti, nondepressed at T2); Onset Depressed (nondepressed at Ti, depressed at T2); and Stable Nondepressed (nondepres…
Gender, Body Image, and Self-Concept in Early Adolescence
Structure and valuation of body image and the relationship between body image and self-concept were examined in 169 ninth-grade males and females. Three specific hypotheses were tested: (a) that females would have more differentiated body images than males; (b) that males would value their bodies more than females; and (c) that the degree of relationship between valuation of body image and self-concept would be stronger for females than for males…
Depressive symptomatology among very early maturing girls
Breast Size Perception and Satisfaction, Body Image, and Psychological Functioning in Caucasian and Asian American College Women
Continuity of styles in the drawings of adolescent girls
Individual styles in girlS' drawings over a four-year period were discernible across six-month intervals but not when the interval spanned menarche, indicating a discontinuity in style related to maturation in other developmental domains
Body-Image Attitudes and Psychosocial Functioning in Euro-American and Asian-American College Women
Euro-American (n = 94) and Asian-American (n = 72) college women were compared on multiple dimensions of body image, including global body satisfaction, preoccupation with appearance, satisfaction with individual body parts or features, and weight concern, and psychosocial functioning, including self-esteem, public self-consciousness, social anxiety, and public body consciousness. Both groups reported similar scores on these variables and showed …
Pilot Study of Relationship between Fertility Risk and Bargaining
Competition for resources to support a healthy pregnancy and later offspring was likely very important for ancestral women. Therefore, it was predicted that women evolved a propensity for intrasexual competition over resources during times of their highest conception risk. To investigate this hypothesis, women played a series of ultimatum games, bargaining games that test participants' willingness to share a monetary stake. During periods of high…
Sexual Orientation and Shifts in Preferences for a Partner's Body Attributes in Short-Term versus Long-Term Mating Contexts
This study assessed the effects of short- and long-term mating contexts on preferences for body characteristics of potential relationship partners in lesbians and heterosexual women. Lesbians (n = 41) rated figure drawings and computer-generated images of women that varied in body fat, waist-to-hip ratio, and breast size; heterosexual women (n = 95) rated computer-generated images of men that varied in muscularity and body fat. Both lesbians and …
How conception risk affects competition and cooperation with attractive women and men
Psychology (22 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · Menarche (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works)