Barbie’s new look: Exploring cognitive body representation among female children and adolescents
| Autor: | Timothy N. Welsh, Catherine M. Sabiston, Melissa L. deJonge, Shauna Solomon-Krakus, Amy Nesbitt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Time Factors Adolescent Science Ethnic group Social Sciences 050109 social psychology Social Theory Adolescents Body type Developmental psychology Families Cognition Age groups Sociology Mental Health and Psychiatry Medicine and Health Sciences Body Image Reaction Time Ethnicities Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Body Representation Child Children Social comparison theory Multidisciplinary Social Research 05 social sciences Biology and Life Sciences Play and Playthings Age Groups People and Places Medicine Cognitive Science Population Groupings Female Psychology Research Article Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 6, p e0218315 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | The original Barbie doll’s unrealistic body shape can negatively affect young girls’ body image. Mattel produced new Barbie dolls with “tall”, “curvy”, and “petite” body types, yet how girls perceive and evaluate the three new Barbie body types remains unknown. This study investigated whether young girls engage in an automatic “self-other matching” process when viewing the different Barbie doll representations. Female children and adolescents (N = 38; Mage = 10; 6–14 years old; SD = 2.24 years) completed a body-part compatibility task to provide an index of how they implicitly relate cognitive representations of their own body to the different doll images. Significant (p < .05) body-part compatibility effects emerged for the original, curvy and petite dolls, but not for the tall Barbie. These findings indicate that girls engage in a self-other body matching process when viewing Barbie, but that the strength of this matching is influenced by the doll’s body type. Results provide new evidence on the underlying cognitive mechanisms that occur when girls are exposed to physique-salient toys, and may have implications for young girls’ body image development and use of appearance-based social comparisons. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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