The Effect of Thin Ideal Media Images on Women’s Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image

By B. Harper, M. Tiggemann. 2008

474 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Museology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. M. Tiggemann
2. Dawn M. Szymanski
3. Rachel M. Calogero
4. J. K. Thompson
5. Lenny R. Vartanian
6. A. Slater
7. Jasmine Fardouly
8. J. Polivy

In Gender Studies

1. Dawn M. Szymanski
2. M. Tiggemann
3. J. K. Thompson
4. Erika R. Carr
5. Rachel M. Calogero
6. A. Slater
7. J. Polivy
8. Lauren Moffitt

In Museology

1. M. Tiggemann
2. Rachel M. Calogero
3. J. K. Thompson
4. A. Slater
5. Dawn M. Szymanski
6. Erika R. Carr
7. Taryn A. Myers
8. J. Crowther

Citations in the corpus

• Shaken and Stirred: A Content Analysis of Women’s Portrayals in James Bond Films (2010, background): “Studies have found exposure to such idealized thin models to be related to a host of outcomes for females—body dissatisfaction (Stice and Shaw 1994), lower self-esteem (Wilcox and Laird 2000), greater self-objectification (Harper and Tiggemann 2008), anger and depression (Pinhas et al.”
• Media Exposure, Extracurricular Activities, and Appearance-Related Comments as Predictors of Female Adolescents’ Self-Objectification (2015, background): “Further, reading beauty magazines (Harper & Tiggemann, 2008; Morry & Staska, 2001), watching music videos or other sexually objectifying television (Aubrey, 2006a, 2006b; Grabe & Hyde, 2009), exercising at a gym or fitness centre (Prichard & Tiggemann, 2005; Slater & Tiggemann, 2006), and being a…”
• Sexual Self-Esteem in American and British College Women: Relations with Self-Objectification and Eating Problems (2009, background): “sexualized media environments that objectify women, which has been linked to the development of adolescent girls’ and boys’ notions of women as sex objects (American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls 2007; Grogan and Wainwright 1996; Harper and Tiggemann 2008; Pet”
• Looking Good Versus Feeling Good: An Investigation of Media Frames of Health Advice and Their Effects on Women’s Body-related Self-perceptions (2010, unknown): “In another experiment, Harper and Tiggemann (2008) showed that women who were assigned to view advertisements with thin-ideal women reported higher state SO, as well as greater appearance anxiety and body dissatisfaction, than those assigned to control ads.”
• Upward and Downward: Social Comparison Processing of Thin Idealized Media Images (2010, background): “A recent study (Harper & Tiggemann, 2008) has shown that the viewing of thin idealized images also leads to a heightened state of self-objectification, that is, the judging of oneself from an observer’s perspective.”
• Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “2005) and media forms (Harper and Tiggemann 2008; Morry and Staska 2001) of sexual objectification contribute to self-objectification.”
• Sexual Objectification of Women: Advances to Theory and Research 1ψ7 (2011, methodology): “…including poorer self-esteem, lower life satisfaction, less relationship satisfaction, lower levels of global well-being, risk-taking, self-harm, and negative attitudes toward breastfeeding (Breines, Crocker, & Garcia, 2008; Harper & Tiggemann, 2008; Mercurio & Landry, 2008; Moradi & Huang, 2008).”
• The Mediating Role of Appearance Comparisons in the Relationship Between Media Usage and Self-Objectification in Young Women (2015, background): “Building upon previous research (Halliwell et al., 2011; Harper & Tiggemann, 2008; Meier & Gray, 2014; Morry & Staska, 2001; Slater & Tiggemann, 2015; Vandenbosch & Eggermont, 2012), we also found that general appearance comparison tendency mediated the relationship between print magazine usage and…”
• Social comparison as a predictor of body dissatisfaction: A meta-analytic review. (2009, methodology): “…Tiggemann (2004) Females 310 Female 14.3 Student Correlational Measured Images 1.855 Males 285 Male 14.3 Student Correlational Measured Images 1.500 Harper & Tiggemann (2008) 90 Female 20.48 Student Experimental Inferred Images 4.573 Hausenblas et al. (2004) 30 Female 20.1 Student Experimental…”
• Facebook Photo Activity Associated with Body Image Disturbance in Adolescent Girls (2014, unknown): “21 Increased exposure to sexually objectifying media correlates with increased self-objectification in females, 19,22,23 and self-objectification is associated with increased body shame and disordered eating among adolescent females.”