Social comparison and women's body satisfaction.

By Lilly F. Lin, J. Kulik. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing

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The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders: The social psychology of women, thinness and culture (2006, background): “In fact, Lin and Kulik (2002) found that women experienced body dissatisfaction when comparing themselves to idealized thin images but did not produce a corresponding increase in body satisfaction when exposed to oversized body shapes, indicating that social comparisons are upward and negative in…”
Do Appearance Focused Cognitive Distortions Moderate the Relationship between Social Comparisons to Peers and Media Images and Body Image Disturbance? (2011, background): “These studies found that interacting with a thin confederate or viewing a thin peer image resulted in greater body dissatisfaction (Krones et al. 2005; Lin and Kulik 2002).”
Social comparison as a predictor of body dissatisfaction: A meta-analytic review. (2009, unknown): “…50 Female 25 EDMixed Experimental Inferred Images 2.362 Levesque & Vichesky (2006) 64 Male 35.92 General Correlational Measured Unspecified 0.599 Lin & Kulik (2002) 67 Female 20 Student Experimental Inferred Fam peer 0.746 Loya et al. (2006) 130 Female 27.05 Student Experimental Measured Images…”
Integrating Social Comparison Theory and Self-Esteem within Objectification Theory to Predict Women’s Disordered Eating (2010, background): “Experimental studies that have manipulated the direction of state body comparison (e.g., by exposing participants to an overweight or slender model supposedly in order to provoke downward or upward comparison, respectively) have indicated that upward, but not downward, body comparison is associated ”
SELF-ESTEEM AS A MODERATOR OF THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL COMPARISON ON WOMEN'S BODY IMAGE (2005, background): “In the context of a mock “dating game,” Lin and Kulik (2002) exposed female college students to an image of a female peer that was computer-manipulated so that she appeared to be thin or overweight.”
Brief Report: Exposure to Muscular Male Models Decreases Men’s Body Satisfaction (2004, background): “The way a woman believes others view her body has a direct and considerable impact on the way she feels about her body ( Lin & Kulik, 2002; Monteath & McCabe, 1997).”
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: a meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. (2008, background): “Table 1 (continued) Study d N Mean age (yrs) Study design Media type Type of control MeasureE C S Harrison (2000) .12 178 14.6 Correlational Magazines BDS-EDI .35 178 14.6 Correlational Magazines DT-EDI .37 178 14.6 Correlational Magazines chEAT Harrison & Cantor (1997) .63 232 20 Correlational Maga”