Do Racial Minorities Respond in the Same Way to Mainstream Beauty Standards? Social Comparison Processes in Asian, Black, and White Women

By Peggy Chin Evans, Allen R. McConnell. 2003

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Ethnicity and body dissatisfaction among women in the United States: a meta-analysis. (2006, background): “However, it has been demonstrated that unlike Black women, who do not find mainstream beauty images relevant to themselves, Asian American women are more likely to endorse mainstream beauty standards in a fashion similar to White women (Evans & McConnell, 2003).”
Are All Minority Women Equally Buffered from Negative Body Image? Intra-Ethnic Moderators of the Buffering Hypothesis 1 (2010, background): “Compared with African American women, Asian American women’s endorsement of mainstream beauty standards (Evans & McConnell, 2003) and body dissatisfaction are similar to European American women’s (Grabe & Hyde, 2006).”
News Selection Patterns as a Function of Race: The Discerning Minority and the Indiscriminating Majority (2008, background): “Psychological research about social comparisons relating to race or ethnicity as a shared characteristic, however, is limited (eg, Evans & McConnell, 2003 ; Frisby, 2004 ), even though this characteristic is said to be highly salient in many circumstances.”