Brief Report: Self-Objectification and Esteem in Young Women: The Mediating Role of Reasons for Exercise

By Peter Strelan, S. Mehaffey, M. Tiggemann. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing, Nutrition and Dietetics

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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): “Some research has also investigated these issues from the objectification theory (Fredrickson and Roberts 1997) framework, showing that self-objectification and body surveillance are correlated with appearance-related motivations for exercise (Prichard and Tiggemann 2005; Strelan et al. 2003).”
Differences in functional and aesthetic body image between sedentary girls and girls involved in sports and physical activity: Does sport type make a difference? (2011, background): “Appearance-based motives (such as weight reduction, body tone) for exercise have been associated with lower body satisfaction and body esteem (Pritchard & Tiggemann, 2008; Strelan et al., 2003).”
Appearance vs. health motives for exercise and for weight loss (2012, methodology): “…particular, research with undergraduate students (Prichard & Tiggemann, 2005) and with women attending fitness centers (Prichard & Tiggemann, 2008; Strelan et al., 2003) has found that the relationship between self-objectification and body esteem was mediated by appearance-related reasons for…”
Sexual Objectification of Women: Advances to Theory and Research 1ψ7 (2011, background): “Relatedly, Strelan, Mehaffey, and Tiggemann (2003) found that the attention focused on women’s bodies in fitness centers leads women to self-objectify more.”
Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions (2008, background): “…for beauty rather than fitness or enjoyment reasons) mediated the relation of self-objectification with body satisfaction and self-esteem in samples of Australian women who were White or whose race/ethnicity was not reported (Strelan & Hargreaves, 2005a; Strelan, Mehaffey, & Tiggemann, 2003).”