Social Comparison and Body Image: Attractiveness Comparisons to Models and Peers Among Adolescent Girls and Boys

By Diane Jones. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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Me, my selfie, and I: The relations between selfie behaviors, body image, self-objectification, and self-esteem in young women. (2020, background): “Hence, appearance-focused content (like pictures) is more likely to influence body-related concepts, because it instigates comparison in this domain (cf. social comparison theory; Festinger, 1954; Jones, 2001; Schutz, Paxton, & Wertheim, 2002).”
Inspired by Hope, Motivated by Envy: Comparing the Effects of Discrete Emotions in the Process of Social Comparison to Media Figures (2014, background): “…on appearance that people make to idealized media models is linked to body dissatisfaction in a range of contexts, including the general media ( Jones, 2001; Morrison, Kalin, & Morrison, 2004), television programming and commercials (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004; Botta, 1999; Cattarin,…”
Using Social Media for Social Comparison and Feedback-Seeking: Gender and Popularity Moderate Associations with Depressive Symptoms (2015, unknown): “Furthermore, girls are more likely to prioritize and compare themselves on dimensions of physical attractiveness online (Haferkamp and Krämer 2011; Jones 2001).”
“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): “Jones, D. C. (2001). Social comparison and body image: Attractiveness comparisons to models and peers among adolescent girls and boys.”
Cosmetic Surgery Makeover Programs and Intentions to Undergo Cosmetic Enhancements: A Consideration of Three Models of Media Effects. (2009, background): “…upward social comparisons on appearance to media images associates with body dissatisfaction in a myriad of contexts, including the general media (Jones, 2001; Morrison, Kalin, & Morrison, 2004), television programming and commercials (Botta, 1999; Cattarin, Thompson, Thomas, & Williams, 2000;…”
COGNITIVE RESPONSES TO IDEALIZED MEDIA IMAGES OF WOMEN: THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL COMPARISON AND CRITICAL PROCESSING TO BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE IN COLLEGE WOMEN (2005, background): “Festinger’s (1954) social comparison theory has been employed by a number of researchers examining the effects of idealized media images (e.g., Botta, 1999; Dittmar & Howard, 2004; Jones, 2001; Richins, 1991; Tiggemann & McGill, 2004).”
The Selfie Generation: Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Early Adolescent Body Image (2019, background): “…of peers (Harter, 1999), the tendency to engage in social comparison (Martin & Kennedy, 1993), and the importance of physical appearance to selfworth (Harter, 1990) – all of which can increase youth’s vulnerability to negative body image (Clay, Vignoles, & Dittmar, 2005; Harter, 1999; Jones, 2001).”
The Role of Friends and Peers in Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction: A Review and Critique of 15 Years of Research (2014, unknown): “Accordingly, adolescents have been shown to compare themselves to friends and close peers most frequently, with more distal peers, family members and individuals in the media being less frequent, but still important, comparison targets (Jones, 2001; Schutz et al., 2002).”
Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, background): “For example, females engage in social comparison with the thin body in the media—although such comparison is inappropriate— just as they do with peers because such body is the ideal that they admire (Jones, 2001).”
For Your Health? The Relationship Between Magazine Reading and Adolescents' Body Image and Eating Disturbances (2003, methodology): “Girls also may feel more compelled to process images of bodies, in particular, due to the importance of appearance attributes for women (Jones, 2001).”
Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in the Broader Context of Internal and Other Social Factors (2012, background): “If women embrace the mediated thin-ideal but do not meet that standard and have friends that do, they may engage in upward comparisons and potentially experience body dissatisfaction (Jones, 2001;Krones, Stice, Batres, &Orjada, 2005).”
Thin-ideal internalization and social comparison tendency as moderators of media models' impact on women's body-focused anxiety (2004, background): “Correlational studies that measure the relationship between body satisfaction and individual differences in the tendency to compare one’s body with others’ consistently find that higher levels of appearance comparison are associated with greater dissatisfaction (Jones, 2001; Thompson et al., 1999).”
The Peer Appearance Culture During Adolescence: Gender and Body Mass Variations (2006, background): “For instance, girls have been more likely to report appearance comparisons than boys ( Jones, 2001; Schutz et al., 2002).”