Buying a Beauty Standard or Dreaming of a New Life? Expectations Associated with Media Ideals

By Renee Engeln-Maddox. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing, Museology

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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)”
“Everybody Knows That Mass Media Are/Are Not [pick one] a Cause of Eating Disorders”: A Critical Review of Evidence for a Causal Link Between Media, Negative Body Image, and Disordered Eating in Females (2009, background): “Engeln-Maddox (2006) recently found that, as predicted, some young women have the clear and strong expectation that looking like a media ideal will transform their lives in multiple, positive ways.”
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.” Thus pos”
Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “…that physical appearance 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…”
Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females: A Review of Effects and Processes (2010, background): “Similarly, various components of the media, including critics and other commentators, tend to avoid discussion of how often the fashion industries use digital technology to manipulate images (Engeln-Maddox, 2006).”
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful (2010, background): “For years, girls have been confronted with narrow definitions of beauty on television (e.g. Engeln-Maddox, 2006; Fouts and Burggraf, 1999), with a white, thin beauty ideal privileged over all others.”
Upward and Downward: Social Comparison Processing of Thin Idealized Media Images (2010, background): “Engeln-Maddox (2006) has suggested that women may want to look like the idealized media image less for her physical characteristics (and what it takes to have these features) and more for her assumed successful life.”
Female Self-Sexualization in MySpace.com Personal Profile Photographs (2012, background): “Female body display is a staple in virtually all media forms, including advertising, magazines, television, movies, and video games (Aubrey 2006; Choma et al. 2007: Engeln-Maddox 2006; Frith et al. 2005; Reichert et al. 1999; Thompson 2000).”
Are Feminist Women Protected from Body Image Problems? A Meta-analytic Review of Relevant Research (2009, background): “Further, the ideal woman currently portrayed in North American media is unrealistically thin (e.g., Engeln-Maddox 2006 ) which can lead women to waste energy striving towards an impossible goal.”
Fat Talk and Body Image Disturbance (2017, background): “These three sources can exert their influence directly, through explicit comments regarding the individual’s weight/appearance, and indirectly, via widespread media portrayals, associations between appearance and heightened happiness, success, confidence, and romantic possibilities (Engeln-Maddox, 2”