Stop looking at me! associations between men's partner‐objectification and women's self‐objectification, body shame and life satisfaction in romantic relationships

Abstract A growing amount of empirical evidence shows that sexual objectification can be elicited within the context romantic relationships, leading to adverse consequences for women's well‐being. However, most this research assessed self‐reported perceptions being objectified by their partner, while scant and not converging has considered men's objectifying toward partners. Furthermore, little is known about underlying mechanisms through which partner‐objectification associated with negative women. To fill these gaps, we involved a sample heterosexual couples ( N = 196) investigated whether would related self‐objectification (in terms self‐surveillance) and, in turn, body shame. Further, examined shame mediated relation between undermined life satisfaction. Confirming our hypotheses, serial mediation analyses showed was satisfaction women via indirect effect Implications findings literature on relationship are discussed. Please refer Supplementary Material section find article's Community Social Impact Statement .