In China, a newly arising genre of TV dramas known as “female drama” has become very popular among female audiences and brought about great changes to the television industry in recent years. Under framework objectification theory, this study examines relationship between consumption sexism, internalization beauty ideals, body surveillance China. Drawing on data collected from questionnaire sur...

The study examined the protective role of body appreciation against body dissatisfaction (a known risk factor for disordered eating), resulting from thin-ideal exposure. We also tested potential mediating mechanisms, specifically, self-objectification and appearance comparison, and explored strategies that women may use to protect their body image. University women (N = 68) first completed meas...

Empirical studies have found associations between eating pathology and childhood experiences of being bullied and teased about appearance. However, the nature of these links is not clear. This study investigated the possible links between such experiences and eating disorders, focusing on the potential mediating role of two socially oriented emotions--shame and social anxiety. Ninety-two eating...

UNLABELLED During the last decades, there has been a rising interest in the role of shame in psychiatric disorders. OBJECTIVE To define shame and describe types and subtypes of shame and their relations to symptoms and meaning in anorexia nervosa. The study will also describe the possible role of pride, as a contrasting emotional and cognitive experience. METHOD Thirteen female patients (ag...

This review focuses on the ways in which the objectification of individuals and groups of people, as well as the self-objectification that typically develops from such treatment, is implicated in positive and negative societal change. Four areas are reviewed: (a) objectification (including dehumanization, infra-humanization, dehumanized perception, sexualization, and colonialism), (b) self-obje...

Background: Literature suggests that the prevalence of depression among female college students is more than male students. Repeated sexual objectification females appears to be one factor can used explain this disparity and higher in attributed repeated experiences by them. This study examines association between at a medical Rajasthan, India. Methods: A cross-sectional observational was condu...

BACKGROUND The rubber hand illusion (RHI) has been widely used to investigate the bodily self in healthy individuals. The aim of the present study was to extend the use of the RHI to examine the bodily self in eating disorders (EDs). METHOD The RHI and self-report measures of ED psychopathology [the Eating Disorder Inventory - 3 (EDI-3) subscales of Drive for Thinness, Bulimia, Body Dissatisf...

Many ethnic minorities in the United States consider themselves to be just as American as their European American counterparts. However, there is a persistent cultural stereotype of ethnic minorities as foreigners (i.e., the perpetual foreigner stereotype) that may be expressed during interpersonal interactions (i.e., foreigner objectification). The goal of the present study was to validate the...

Social media generally refers to all kinds of websites or applications which allow users present the contents created by themselves on platform and counteract with other users. Today, it is a common phenomenon for females view fitness posts social media. Although past research has revealed significantly negative relationship between exposure global self-esteem, still unclear that how specific a...