Understanding Sexual Objectification: A Comprehensive Approach Toward Media Exposure and Girls' Internalization of Beauty Ideals, Self‐Objectification, and Body Surveillance

By Laura Vandenbosch, Steven Eggermont. 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

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Instagram use and young women’s body image concerns and self-objectification: Testing mediational pathways (2018, background): “Thus, viewing images on Instagram might enhance the salience of the societal beauty ideal ultimately, thereby increasing the extent to which women internalize that beauty ideal (Morry and Staska, 2001; Vandenbosch and Eggermont, 2012).”
The Mediating Role of Appearance Comparisons in the Relationship Between Media Usage and Self-Objectification in Young Women (2015, background): “These findings are similar to those reported by Vandenbosch and Eggermont (2012) who found that magazines and social networking websites were associated with self-objectification, but television usage was not (also see Slater & Tiggemann, 2015).”
Appearance-Related Social Networking Sites and Body Image in Young Women: Testing an Objectification-Social Comparison Model (2020, background): “However, likes and comments can (inadvertently) promote an idealized concept of how women, or adolescent girls, should portray themselves online, and acceptance of this idealized concept may trigger varying degrees of self- objectification (Vandenbosch & Eggermont, 2012; Vandenbosch et al., 2015).”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part I: A Review of Empirical Support (2016, background): “Finally, exposure to sexually objectifying content on social media sites was associated with self-objectification and body surveillance (Vandenbosch and Eggermont 2012).”
Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths (2015, background): “…magazines and television) has been linked to self-objectification in a number of studies (e.g., Aubrey, 2006b; Gordon, 2008; Grabe & Hyde, 2009; Vandenbosch & Eggermont, 2012), but very few studies have examined this experimentally (e.g., Aubrey et al., 2009; Daniels, 2009; Halliwell, Malson,…”
Follow me and like my beautiful selfies: Singapore teenage girls' engagement in self-presentation and peer comparison on social media (2016, background): “…teenage girls aged 12e16 years old experience emotional changes in intrapersonal and interpersonal development as well as physical changes such as gaining weight suddenly and transitioning from a girl's body to a grown woman's body (Labre & Walsh-Childers, 2003; Vandenbosch & Eggermont, 2012).”