Women's sports media, self-objectification, and mental health in black and white adolescent females

By Kristen Harrison, Barbara L. Fredrickson. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Music

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The Impact of Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure on Negative Body Emotions and Sexual Self-Perceptions: Investigating the Mediating Role of Body Self-Consciousness (2007, background): “Moreover, in their examination of the effects of sports media exposure on adolescent girls’ self-objectification, Harrison and Fredrickson (2003) found that Caucasian girls who were exposed to sports in which women were judged—at least in part—on their lean figures (e.g., gymnastics, figure…”
Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions (2008, background): “…of adolescent girls found that self-objectification was uniquely linked with body shame, eating disorder symptoms, depressive symptoms, and lower self-esteem when demographic characteristics were considered concomitantly (Harrison & Fredrickson, 2003; Tolman, Impett, Tracy, & Michael, 2006).”
The Effect of Thin Ideal Media Images on Women’s Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image (2008, background): “…links have been found between increases in state self-objectification and clinical symptoms (Fredrickson et al. 1998; Noll and Fredrickson 1998; Harrison and Fredrickson 2003), it is possible that prolonged exposure could place women at risk of developing more serious disturbances of mood and…”
Exposure to Sexually Objectifying Media and Body Self-Perceptions among College Women: An Examination of the Selective Exposure Hypothesis and the Role of Moderating Variables (2006, background): “Also, a recent experiment demonstrated that sports media stimuli increased self-objectification in adolescent girls ( Harrison & Fredrickson, 2003 ).”
Sexual Objectification in Music Videos: A Content Analysis Comparing Gender and Genre (2011, background): “In essence, an instrumental role is one in which characters are valued for their contributions to the music video above and beyond their appearance (Harrison & Fredrickson, 2003).”
Effects of Sexually Objectifying Media on Self-Objectification and Body Surveillance in Undergraduates: Results of a 2-Year Panel Study (2006, background): “Throughout this viewing, an individual might be exposed to objectification ‘‘dozens if not hundreds of times’’ (Harrison & Fredrickson, 2003, p. 229).”
Media Exposure, Extracurricular Activities, and Appearance-Related Comments as Predictors of Female Adolescents’ Self-Objectification (2015, background): “In the one study with female adolescents, Harrison and Fredrickson (2003) demonstrated increases in state self-objectification after brief experimental exposure to a video featuring lean female athletes, implicating sports media in particular.”
Looking Good Versus Feeling Good: An Investigation of Media Frames of Health Advice and Their Effects on Women’s Body-related Self-perceptions (2010, background): “Thus, through these two dominant ways that the media objectify women’s bodies, research has found that not only do the media provide a socializing function for the development of a trait of SO (Aubrey 2006a), but they also provide a key eliciting condition in temporarily activated state SO (Aubrey e”
The Disruptive Effect of Self-Objectification on Performance (2006, background): “Research on women spanning ages 12 through 84 has shown that trait self-objectification is related to depression and restrictive and bulimic eating disorders (Harrison & Fredrickson, 2003; Miner-Rubino et al., 2002; Muehlenkamp & SarisBaglama, 2002).”
Sexy versus Strong: What Girls and Women Think of Female Athletes. (2012, background): “Lastly, Harrison and Fredrickson (2003) found that the ethnicity of a viewer and type of sport are important factors in how sport media impacts teen girls.”
Communication in the Community of Sport: The Process of Enacting, (Re)Producing, Consuming, and Organizing Sport (2004, background): “In more recent work Harrison and Fredrickson (2003) found that exposure to lean athletes increased adolescent Anglo girls’ tendencies to objectify their own bodies, whereas exposure to nonlean athletes decreased this tendency slightly.”
Body Image and Disordered Eating in Adolescent Girls and Boys: A Test of Objectification Theory (2010, background): “In a much larger American sample (n=374) covering preadolescent and adolescent girls who ranged in age from 10 to 19 years of age, Harrison and Fredrickson (2003) found that self-objectification became more marked between early and mid-adolescence.”
“Putting on” Sexiness: A Content Analysis of the Presence of Sexualizing Characteristics in Girls’ Clothing (2011, background): “2006), as well as with anxiety, disordered eating, and depression (Harrison and Fredrickson 2003).”