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

By Jennifer Stevens Aubrey. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Museology

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Tests of Objectification Theory in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Community Samples: Mixed Evidence for Proposed Pathways (2011, background): “Additionally, exposure to objectified media images of one’s gender has been linked to self-objectification and body shame in both genders (Aubrey 2006; Morry and Staska 2001), which is especially relevant in light of evidence that media images of men are becoming more objectified over time (Rohlinge”
Facebook Photo Activity Associated with Body Image Disturbance in Adolescent Girls (2014, unknown): “…self-objectiﬁcation, a pattern that has been found for exposure to traditional media including beauty magazines 19 and sexually objectifying TV. 22 Self-objectiﬁcation theory describes a two-step process where females are trained to objectify females in the media and then transfer this pattern…”
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): “Individuals who continuously see others’ bodies being objectified in the media learn the importance of appearance, which could encourage them to view themselves as objects to be looked at by others (Aubrey 2006a).”
Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “Specifically, self-esteem has been negatively associated with experiences of sexual objectification (American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls 2007; Tylka and Subich 2004), self-objectification and self-surveillance (Aubrey 2006; Mercurio and Landry 2008; Tolman et ”
Media Exposure, Extracurricular Activities, and Appearance-Related Comments as Predictors of Female Adolescents’ Self-Objectification (2015, background): “In studies with adult women, exposure to objectifying magazine content has been associated with self-objectification cross-sectionally (Morry & Staska, 2001), longitudinally (Aubrey, 2006a), and experimentally (Harper & Tiggemann, 2008).”
Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions (2008, methodology): “Specifically, at Wave 1 of data collection, body surveillance and body shame were correlated negatively with body esteem for college women and men, but only body shame was correlated with body esteem for middle-age women (McKinley, 1998, 1999, 2006a, 2006b; McKin-ley & Hyde, 1996).”
Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths (2015, background): “Aubrey (2006a), however, found that men and women with higher levels of trait self-objectification may avoid objectifying media over time; thus, self-objectifying users of video games and virtual worlds may avoid sexualized avatars.”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Notions of Women as Sex Objects: Assessing Causality and Underlying Processes (2009, background): “In a related study on the influence of self-objectification on exposure to sexually objectifying television content, Aubrey (2006) showed that women who viewed themselves primarily in terms of externally perceivable attributes avoided sexually objectifying television.”