“If Only I were Thin Like Her, Maybe I Could be Happy Like Her”: The Self-Implications of Associating a Thin Female Ideal with Life Success

By Peggy Chin Evans. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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Are All Minority Women Equally Buffered from Negative Body Image? Intra-Ethnic Moderators of the Buffering Hypothesis 1 (2010, background): “Body image concerns are central to self-esteem and self-concept for many European American women because they equate beauty and thinness with positive traits and outcomes, such as intelligence, happiness, and success (Dion et al., 1972; Evans, 2003).”
Fat Talk and Body Image Disturbance (2017, background): “…media portrayals, associations between appearance and heightened happiness, success, confidence, and romantic possibilities (Engeln-Maddox, 2006; Evans, 2003) as well as modeling of maladaptive behaviors such as negative appearance attitudes, weight concerns, and weight control techniques…”
The processing of thin ideals in fashion magazines: A source of social comparison or fantasy? (2009, background): “Other research (Evans, 2003; Engeln-Maddox, 2006) has indicated that women associate looking like the thin ideal media image with a wider array of psychological benefits and positive life outcomes, including confidence, happiness, romantic attention and generally having a “successful life.”
Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “Social motives emphasize the use of cosmetic surgery to garner favourable evaluations from others (Davis 1995; Henderson-King and Henderson-King 2005), based on the notion that enhancing one’s physical attractiveness to others brings social rewards (Eagly et al. 1991; Engeln-Maddox 2006; Evans 2003)”
Pretty Healthy Food: How and When Aesthetics Enhance Perceived Healthiness (2020, background): “…lifestyle, given that higher socioeconomic status correlates with lower body mass index in developed economies (McLaren 2007); mass media portrays success as tantamount to being slim and fit (Evans 2003); and consumers expect expensive foods to be healthier (Haws, Reczek, and Sample 2017).”
Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “…is more important for women’s social success than for men’s (Davis 1990; Dellinger and Williams 1997; Eagly et al. 1991; Engeln-Maddox 2006; Evans 2003; Fiske et al. 1991; Seid 1989)—and girls and women are defined and treated more often as bodies than boys and men (Calogero and Thompson…”