Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery in Middle-Aged Women: Body Image, Aging Anxiety, and the Media

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Media Exposure, Body Dissatisfaction, and Disordered Eating in Middle-aged Women (2011, background): “Slevec and Tiggemann (2010) reported high internal consistency for the total scale with a sample of middle-aged women (a ¼ .90).”
Internalization of Appearance Ideals and Cosmetic Surgery Attitudes: A Test of the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image (2011, methodology): “In a study evaluating the cosmetic surgery attitudes of middle-aged Australian women, body dissatisfaction, investment in appearance, aging anxiety and media exposure predictedsomeaspectofattitudestowardcosmeticprocedures ( Slevec and Tiggemann 2010 ).”
Oppressive Beliefs at Play: Associations among Beauty Ideals and Practices and Individual Differences in Sexism, Objectification of Others, and Media Exposure (2010, background): “Finally, a range of other beauty ideals and practices (e.g., acceptance of cosmetic surgery; see Slevec & Tiggemann, 2010) could be meaningfully examined under the umbrella of the BIO hypothesis.”
Leaks, Lumps, and Lines (2011, background): “Indeed, both anxiety about aging (Slevec & Tiggemann, 2010) and selfobjectification (Calogero, Pina, Park, & Rahemtulla, 2010) are predictors of women’s willingness to consider cosmetic surgery.”