On models and vases: Body dissatisfaction and proneness to social comparison effects
| Autor: | Diederik A. Stapel, Frans W. Siero, Debra Trampe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Adult
Self-Assessment Adolescent Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Affect (psychology) Developmental psychology Beauty Body Image Humans Mass Media Social Behavior Netherlands Mass media Social comparison theory Analysis of Variance business.industry Social perception Physical attractiveness Self perception Self evaluation Female business Psychology Social psychology Body dissatisfaction |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92:106-118 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1315 0022-3514 |
| Popis: | When and why do media-portrayed physically attractive women affect perceivers' self-evaluations? In 6 studies, the authors showed that whether such images affect self-evaluations depends jointly on target features and perceiver features. In Study 1, exposure to a physically attractive target, compared with exposure to an equally attractive model, lowered women's self-evaluations. Study 2 showed that body-dissatisfied women, to a greater extent than body-satisfied women, report that they compare their bodies with other women's bodies. In Study 3, body-dissatisfied women, but not body-satisfied women, were affected by both attractive models and nonmodels. Furthermore, in Study 4, it was body-dissatisfied women, rather than body-satisfied women, who evaluated themselves negatively after exposure to a thin (versus a fat) vase. The authors replicated this result in Study 5 by manipulating, instead of measuring, body dissatisfaction. Finally, Study 6 results suggested that body dissatisfaction increases proneness to social comparison effects because body dissatisfaction increases self-activation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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