Investigation of Body Comparison Among Adolescent Girls

By Helena K. Schutz, S. Paxton, E. Wertheim. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescent Boys and Girls: Objectified Body Consciousness, Internalization of the Media Body Ideal and Perceived Pressure from Media (2008, methodology): “Furthermore, the internalization subscale yielded scores demonstrating good test–retest reliability in a sample of adolescent girls (Schutz et al. 2002) and scores demonstrating good concurrent validity in a female sample (Griffiths et al.”
Sociocultural Predictors of Physical Appearance Concerns among Adolescent Girls and Young Women from China (2008, background): “95 (Schutz et al. 2002; Thompson et al. 1991), and consistent”
Body Objectification, Social Pressure, and Disordered Eating Behavior in College Women: The Role of Sorority Membership (2007, background): “The new finding, that sororities attract women who already experience strong social pressure, supports the idea that sororities attract high-risk women, because social pressure has been associated with increased vulnerability to the development of eating disorders (Crandall, 1988; Paxton et al., 199”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part II: An Integrated Theoretical Model (2016, background): “Within sociocultural theory, particular attention is paid to physical appearance comparison as one of the mechanisms proposed to account for the relationship between sociocultural pressures to achieve appearance ideals and body image concerns and eating pathology (Schutz et al. 2002; Rodgers et al. ”
Gender and Age Group Differences in Mass Media and Interpersonal Influences on Body Dissatisfaction Among Chinese Adolescents (2012, background): “Finally, American studies have found girls engage in appearance comparisons more than boys do (e.g., Jones 2001; Schutz et al. 2002; Warren et al. 2010).”
The Role of Friends and Peers in Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction: A Review and Critique of 15 Years of Research (2014, unknown): “…r =-.10, p >.01 Conflict – friends Higher body dissatisfaction r =.14, p <.001 Emotional detachment – friends Higher body dissatisfaction r =.27, p <.001 Schutz et al. (2002) Australia Early – mid adol. girls (14.1 years) Body comparison Higher body dissatisfaction r =.69, p <.002 Shisslak et…”
Social comparison as a predictor of body dissatisfaction: A meta-analytic review. (2009, unknown): “…0.494 Richins (1991) Study 2 80 Female NR Student Correlational Measured Images 0.747 Study 3 80 Female NR Student Experimental Inferred Images 1.711 Schutz et al. (2002) 543 Female 14.09 Student Correlational Measured Unspecified 1.666 Shomaker & Furman (2007) 80 Female 20.7 Student Experimental…”
The Peer Appearance Culture During Adolescence: Gender and Body Mass Variations (2006, background): “For instance, girls have been more likely to report appearance comparisons than boys (Jones, 2001; Schutz et al., 2002 ).”
An evaluation of the Tripartite Influence Model of body dissatisfaction and eating disturbance with adolescent girls. (2004, background): “For example, the alpha was 0.84 in a study of 12–16- year-old girls (Schutz et al., 2002).”