Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions

By Bonnie Moradi, Yu-Ping Huang. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

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My Eyes Are Up Here: The Nature of the Objectifying Gaze Toward Women (2013, background): “The model of objectification (Fredrickson and Roberts 1997), including antecedents, mechanisms, as well as short-term and long-term consequences of objectification for women recipients, has received substantial empirical support (Moradi and Huang 2008).”
Media Exposure, Extracurricular Activities, and Appearance-Related Comments as Predictors of Female Adolescents’ Self-Objectification (2015, background): “The majority of the work has examined the role of self-objectification (and/or its corollary selfsurveillance) in disordered eating and has utilized samples of undergraduate women (for reviews, see Moradi, 2010; Moradi & Huang, 2008; Tiggemann, 2011).”
Sexual Objectification Increases Rape Victim Blame and Decreases Perceived Suffering (2013, background): “Self-objectification—the internalization of an observers’ perspective on one’s physical appearance—is robustly linked to depression, anxiety, body shame, sexual dysfunction, and poor academic performance, particularly among women (for reviews, see Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997; Moradi & Huang, 2008).”
The Relationship Between Online Pornography and the Sexual Objectification of Women: The Attenuating Role of Porn Literacy Education (2017, background): “…the objectification of women in contemporary societies may further contribute to girls’ and women’s disproportionate suffering from mental health disorders, including eating disorders, depression, and sexual dysfunction (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997, p. 173; for a review see Moradi & Huang, 2008).”
Female Self-Sexualization in MySpace.com Personal Profile Photographs (2012, background): “This theory posits that exposure to sexually objectifying experiences from media outlets and interpersonal relationships socialize women to adopt an observer’s perspective as the primary view of their own bodies (Carr and Szymanski 2011; Moradi and Huang 2008 ).”
Sexual Objectification of Women: Advances to Theory and Research 1ψ7 (2011, background): “…examining other aspects of women's mental, psychosocial, and relational well-being (Breines et al., 2008; Harper & Tiggemann, 2008; Mercurio & Landry, 2008; Moradi & Huang, 2008); thus, extensions of objectification theory beyond disordered eating, depression, and sexual dysfunction are encouraged.”
Understanding the link between men’s alcohol use and sexual violence perpetration: The mediating role of sexual objectification. (2014, background): “Women sometimes report enjoyment of sexual objectification from men (Liss, Erchull, & Ramsey, 2011), but these seemingly innocuous behaviors have direct negative consequences for women (Moradi & Huang, 2008) and may set the stage for more extreme and unwanted acts of sexual violence from men.”
The Selfie Generation: Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Early Adolescent Body Image (2019, background): “…surveillance are often conceptualized as part of an overall construct known as objectified 6 body consciousness (McKinley & Hyde, 1996), previous research suggests there is also value in examining the two constructs as separate components of body image (Manago et al., 2015; Moradi & Huang, 2008).”
“Putting on” Sexiness: A Content Analysis of the Presence of Sexualizing Characteristics in Girls’ Clothing (2011, background): “According to a metaanalysis by Moradi and Huang (2008) , most research into objectification theory (and a substantial portion of the research cited in this paper) has been done with white college women of unspecified sexual orientation in the US, Australia, or Britain.”
When What You See Is What You Get (2011, background): “The OBCS has demonstrated acceptable reliability for both women and men on body surveillance (awomen ¼ .76; amen ¼ .79) and body shame (awomen ¼ .70; amen ¼ .73, McKinley, 1998; McKinley & Hyde, 1996) as well as convergent validity with body esteem (Moradi & Huang, 2008).”
Tests of Objectification Theory in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Community Samples: Mixed Evidence for Proposed Pathways (2011, background): “Indeed, a recent review of research on objectification theory (Moradi and Huang 2008) explicitly noted the need for more research exploring the effects of sexual objectification on men.”