Exposure to media images of thin-and-beautiful women negatively affects the body image and mood states of young women. However, not all women are equally susceptible to these effects. The present experimental investigation with 123 young college women evaluated the moderating effects of the extent of internalization of media ideals. It also examined the preventative impact of two brief interven...

Objective: To assess differences in trait objectifying measures and eating pathology between Australian Caucasians and Asian women living in Australia and in Hong Kong with high and low levels of western cultural identification (WCI) and to see if exposure to objectifying images had an effect on state-objectification. A further aim was to assess using path analyses whether an extended version o...

OBJECTIVE We explored the extent to which changes in emotional states following exposure to images of idealized bodies predict unhealthy body change attitudes and behaviors in women and men, and whether particular psychological traits mediate these effects. METHOD One hundred thirty-three women and 93 men were assessed for unhealthy attitudes and behaviors related to body weight and muscles u...

Women are routinely exposed to images of extremely slim female bodies (the thin ideal) in advertisements, even if they do not necessarily pay much attention to these images. We hypothesized that paradoxically, it is precisely in such conditions of low attention that the impact of the social comparison with the thin ideal might be the most pronounced. To test this prediction, one hundred and sev...

This study examined the relationships of sociocultural body ideal internalization, difficulties in emotion regulation, and their interaction with image concerns a group 423 adolescent boys. Participants were aged from 12 to 17 years old completed multiple self-reported questionnaires. Regression analyses latent moderation structural equations performed. Both variables positively correlated diss...

The effect of the thin body ideal in a media-naïve population 1 Jean-Luc Jucker, Tracey Thornborrow, Martin J. Tovee, and Lynda G. Boothroyd 2 3 The thin ideal is the western concept of an ideally slim or underweight female body, 4 and its omnipresence in the mass media has a negative impact on women’s health. 5 Media consumption is associated with a drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, lo...

Extensive research indicates that exposure to media as well as pressure and modeling by sociocultural agents, such as peers and family, are predictive of the development of body image dissatisfaction (BID). This influence is mediated by social comparison and internalization of the thin-ideal. In the current study we assessed comparisons between participants and other women with whom they were i...

Body image dissatisfaction, which is increasing as an issue for women, can diminish quality of life with negative psychological consequences. The relationship between internalizing the thin body ideal and the development of body image dissatisfaction has been studied in psychology. The thin body ideal is aspiring to a perfect female body that is very thin, presented as the ideal in the media. R...