Thin-Ideal Internalization: Mounting Evidence for a New Risk Factor for Body-Image Disturbance and Eating Pathology

By J. Kevin Thompson, Eric Stice. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing

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Brief Report: Exposure to Muscular Male Models Decreases Men’s Body Satisfaction (2004, background): “When women are exposed to the culturally ideal thin body, they tend to devalue their own bodies (Ogden & Mundray, 1996; Stice, Schupak-Neuberg, Shaw, & Stein, 1994; Thompson & Stice, 2001 ) and experience negative mood states such as, but not limited to, depression (Cash & Henry, 1995).”
Think 'thin' and feel bad: the role of appearance schema activation, attention level, and thin-ideal internalization for young women's responses to ultra-thin media ideals (2005, result): “This finding is consistent with mounting evidence that thin–ideal internalization is a risk factor not only for body image disturbance, but also eating pathology (Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
NetTweens The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls (2014, background): “Although impossible for most women and girls to achieve by healthy means, this ideal is nevertheless internalized by many, and is itself a demonstrated causal risk factor for subsequent body dissatisfaction and disordered eating (Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females: A Review of Effects and Processes (2010, background): “These are the images that set the current standards of beauty and sexuality that are seen (experienced) as ‘‘real’’ and ‘‘normative’’ but are actually impossible to attain (Levine & Harrison, 2004, 2009; Levine & Murnen, 2009; Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1999; Thompson & Stice, 2001”
Social modeling of eating: a review of when and why social influence affects food intake and choice. (2015, positive): “This refers to a cultural value placed on thinness, which is equated with success and attractiveness, and applies predominantly to women (Garner & Garfinkel, 1980; Grogan, Bell & Conner, 1997; Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
Ethnicity and body dissatisfaction among women in the United States: a meta-analysis. (2006, background): “…from this growing literature demonstrate that body dissatisfaction is a significant problem in Western societies and that girls and women are more dissatisfied with their body size and shape than their male counterparts (e.g., Phares, Steinberg, & Thompson, 2004; J. K. Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
What is an emotional disorder? A transdiagnostic mechanistic definition with implications for assessment, treatment, and prevention (2019, background): “…accumulation of evidence suggests that although thin idealization and body dissatisfaction have been clearly identified as precipitating factors (e.g., Stice & Shaw, 2002; Thompson & Stice, 2001), it is not simply these common appraisals of body shape that potentiate and maintain eating disorders.”
Development and Validation of the Female Muscularity Scale (2017, background): “Although the relationship between the endorsement of the thin-ideal and body image and eating concerns is well documented (Cafri et al. 2005; Thompson and Stice 2001), less is known regarding the relationship between preoccupations related to muscularity and such outcomes, in part due to measurement”
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Engaging in Fat Talk (2012, background): “Research has shown that depressive symptomatology is an outcome of an idealized body image and low body satisfaction (Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
Mass Media and Self-Esteem, Body Image, and Eating Disorder Tendencies (2007, background): “…attractiveness is especially important to them (Freedman, 1984), (b) thin and beautiful idealized images in media play a significant role in influencing self-confidence, and (c) these types of images have been associated with eating-related problems (Harrison, 2001; J. K. Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
Culture, Obesity Stereotypes, Self-Esteem, and the “Thin Ideal”: A Social Identity Perspective (2004, background): “Prior research (see Thompson and Stice, 2001) has shown that SATAQ scores predict body esteem, self-esteem, and a variety of patterns of disordered eating.”
A Heuristic for Developing Transdiagnostic Models of Psychopathology (2011, background): “Body dissatisfaction, in turn, is a reliable predictor of eating disorder symptoms (Thompson & Stice, 2001).”