A Test of Objectification Theory with Lesbian Women

By Holly B. Kozee, Tracy Lynn Tylka. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Pharmacy

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Complimentary Weightism: The Potential Costs of Appearance-Related Commentary for Women's Self-Objectification (2009, unknown): “…& Fredrickson, 2006), depression (Grabe, Hyde, & Lindberg, 2007; Tiggemann & Kuring, 2004), disordered eating (Calogero, Davis, & Thompson, 2005; Kozee & Tylka, 2006), and sexual problems (Calogero & Thompson, 2008; Steer & Tiggemann, 2008) in clinical and nonclinical samples of girls and women.”
Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions (2008, methodology): “Similarities have also emerged between heterosexual and sexual orientation minority women on levels of sexual objectification experiences, body shame, and internal bodily awareness (Downs, James, & Cowan, 2006; Kozee & Tylka, 2006).”
Integrating Social Comparison Theory and Self-Esteem within Objectification Theory to Predict Women’s Disordered Eating (2010, background): “Some studies have indicated that many, but not all, tenets of objectification theory can be applied to women older than 25 (Augustus-Horvath and Tylka 2009), lesbian women (Kozee and Tylka 2006), and women who are deaf (Moradi and Rottenstein 2007).”
Female Self-Sexualization in MySpace.com Personal Profile Photographs (2012, background): “However, in their test of objectification theory with lesbian women, Kozee and Tylka (2006) found that lesbian participants reported higher rates of body surveillance when compared to heterosexual participants.”
Media Exposure, Extracurricular Activities, and Appearance-Related Comments as Predictors of Female Adolescents’ Self-Objectification (2015, unknown): “Sexual objectification experiences have been examined further by Kozee and colleagues including the development of the Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale (Kozee & Tylka, 2006; Kozee, Tylka, Augustus-Horvath, & Denchik, 2007) and the investigation of unwanted sexual advances or peer sexual ha”
Appearance-Related Social Networking Sites and Body Image in Young Women: Testing an Objectification-Social Comparison Model (2020, background): “In line with this definition, several authors have used body surveillance as a proxy of self- objectification, rather than attempting to assess self- objectification per se (e.g., Kozee & Tylka, 2006; Rolnik et al., 2010; Slater & Tiggemann, 2010).”
A Test and Extension of Objectification Theory as It Predicts Disordered Eating: Does Women's Age Matter?. (2009, background): “…have been supported with samples of largely young adult college women (e.g., Calogero, 2004; Fredrickson et al., 1998; Huebner & Fredrickson, 1999; Kozee & Tylka, 2006; Moradi et al., 2005; Noll & Fredrickson, 1998; Tiggemann & Slater, 2001; Tylka & Hill, 2004), were upheld for both age groups.”
Media Exposure, Body Dissatisfaction, and Disordered Eating in Middle-aged Women (2011, result): “This pattern has been found to be the case in younger lesbians (Kozee & Tylka, 2006), as well as in two samples that included lesbians of middle-age (Morrison, Morrison, & Sager, 2004; Share & Mintz, 2002).”
Sexual Objectification of Women: Advances to Theory and Research 1ψ7 (2011, background): “…including self-objectification, habitual body monitoring, body shame, internalization of the thin ideal, lowered introceptive awareness, and disordered eating among both lesbian and heterosexual women (Hill & Fischer, 2008; Kozee & Tylka, 2006; Kozee et al., 2007; Moradi, Dirks, & Matteson, 2005).”
Predictors and Effects of Self-Objectification in Lesbians (2008, methodology): “Additionally, we predicted a direct path between surveillance and negative eating attitudes, which has been found in previous research (Kozee & Tylka, 2006).”
“Do You Even Lift, Bro?” Objectification, Minority Stress, and Body Image Concerns for Sexual Minority Men (2017, result): “In support of the legacy of research on objectification theory, many of our findings with sexual minority men were similar to those reported in the foundational objectification theory studies (Augustus-Horvath & Tylka, 2009; Kozee & Tylka, 2006; Wiseman & Moradi, 2010).”
Addressing Gender and Cultural Diversity in Body Image: Objectification Theory as a Framework for Integrating Theories and Grounding Research (2010, background): “For example, Kozee and Tylka (2006) found a general pattern of partial mediations for lesbian women and full mediations for heterosexual women in the series of relations posited in objectification theory.”
Tests of Objectification Theory in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Community Samples: Mixed Evidence for Proposed Pathways (2011, background): “This finding is consistent with Martins et al. (2007), who reported that self-objectification was not linked to body shame in heterosexual men.”
Experiences of Sexual Objectification, Minority Stress, and Disordered Eating Among Sexual Minority Women (2015, methodology): “Among sexual minority women, scores on this measure were positively correlated with body shame, internalized sociocultural standards of beauty, negative eating attitudes, eating disordered symptomology, and depression (Engeln-Maddox et al., 2011; Haines et al., 2008; Kozee & Tylka, 2006).”
Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “Empirical studies have demonstrated that both interpersonal forms (Hill and Fischer 2008; Kozee and Tylka 2006; Kozee et al. 2007; Moradi et al. 2005) and media forms (Harper and Tiggemann 2008; Morry and Staska 2001) of sexual objectification contribute to self-objectification.”
Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery in Middle-Aged Women: Body Image, Aging Anxiety, and the Media (2010, background): “In general, lesbian identity has been identified as a protective factor against body dissatisfaction (Morrison, Morrison, & Sager, 2004), internalization of cultural standards of appearance (Share & Mintz, 2002), and disordered eating (Kozee & Tylka, 2006).”
The UCLA Body Project I: Gender and Ethnic Differences in Self-Objectification and Body Satisfaction Among 2,206 Undergraduates (2007, methodology): “The surveillance scale was chosen because it has been used as a measure of self-objectification in past research (e.g., Kozee and Tylka 2006).”