Satisfaction with Body Image and Peer Relationships for Males and Females in a College Environment

By W. D. Hoyt, Lori Kogan. 2001

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Body Image and Beliefs About Appearance: Constraints on the Leisure of College-Age and Middle-Age Women (2006, background): “Hoyt and Kogan (2001) found that women, especially those under or above average weight, were more dissatisfied with their appearance than men.”
Physical Self-Concept and Sports: Do Gender Differences Still Exist? (2004, methodology): “Previous research has shown that girls, in particular, are critical about how they look and about their body weight ( Hoyt & Kogan, 2001; Rosenblum & Lewis, 1999).”
Relationships Between Men’s and Women’s Body Image and Their Psychological, Social, and Sexual Functioning (2005, background): “…that college students with poor views of their bodies are more likely than others to avoid sexual activities (Faith & Schare, 1993), to perceive themselves as unskilled sexual partners (Holmes, Chamberlin, & Young, 1994), and to report dissatisfaction with their sex lives (Hoyt & Kogan, 2001).”
An Examination of Psychosocial Correlates of Disordered Eating among Undergraduate Women (2005, background): “As women adopt unrealistic standards of beauty, the differences between the physical realities of their bodies and the thin-ideal that is portrayed in the media become more salient and influential ( Hoyt & Kogan, 2001 ), and possibly lead to more negative affect, lower self-esteem, and greater body ”