The Impact of Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure on Negative Body Emotions and Sexual Self-Perceptions: Investigating the Mediating Role of Body Self-Consciousness

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Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions (2008, background): “Furthermore, in a sample of predominantly White college women and men, body surveillance, but not self-objectification, mediated the relations of sexually objec-tifying media exposure with appearance concerns during sexual intimacy (Aubrey, 2007).”
Sexual Objectification in Music Videos: A Content Analysis Comparing Gender and Genre (2011, background): “…assumption, arguing that the media provide not only an important socializing function for the development of a trait level of self-objectification (Aubrey, 2006, 2007) but also a key eliciting condition in temporarily activated state self-objectification (Aubrey, Henson, Hopper, & Smith, 2009;…”
When media become the mirror: a meta-analysis on media and body image (2020, background): “…desire to have a particular body shape has led to a range of concerns including body dissatisfaction (Grabe, Ward, & Hyde, 2008), negative emotions (Aubrey, 2007), depression (Garvin & Damson, 2008), unhealthy eating behavior1 (Bissell & Zhou, 2004), and excessive exercise (Dakanalis et al., 2015;…”
Sexy versus Strong: What Girls and Women Think of Female Athletes. (2012, background): “Existing research has documented college and adult women’s tendencies to self-objectify in response to exposure to sexually objectifying media (see Moradi & Huang, 2008 for a review; Aubrey, 2007).”