"Ally McBeal vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger": Comparing mass media, interpersonal feedback and gender as predictors of satisfaction with body thinness and muscularity

By L. Vartanian, C. Giant, R. Passino. 2001

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Susceptibility to appearance-related mass media, interpersonal feedback, and instrumentality were compared as predictors of body satisfaction and shape concerns regarding thinness and muscularity in a sample of 287 undergraduate men and women. Results indicate that both genders experience body dissatisfaction, but along different shape dimensions; susceptibility to appearance-related mass media and negative appearance-related feedback appear to operate in similar ways to affect men’s and women’s overall body satisfaction.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing

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Brief Report: Exposure to Muscular Male Models Decreases Men’s Body Satisfaction (2004, background): “However, research has demonstrated that, although most women want to be thinner, most men actually want to be more muscular (Cash & Henry, 1995; Conner-Greene, 1988; Jacobi & Cash, 1994; Mintz & Betz, 1986; Silberstein, Striegel-Moore, Timko, & Rodin, 1988; Vartanian, Giant, & Passino, 2001 ).”
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Meta-Analyses of the Effects of Media Images on Men's Body-image Concerns (2008, background): “Overall, these types of commercials attempt to persuade the male viewer that if he uses certain gym equipment then his body will look like that of the man in the commercial, even though those particular images, as well as others, are practically unattainable ( Turkel, 1998 ).”
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